Bike4Care

In Uganda, for example, there are a large number of volunteer health care workers who serve households in specific regions with house calls and outreach on health issues. Health workers use the bicycle for door-to-door health checks and counselling. The Bike4Care project addresses 3 of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), intending to reduce child mortality, improve maternal health care, and combat HIV, malaria, and other diseases.

The Bike4Care Uganda programme arranges an official launch ceremony to engage and inform the local community when bicycle care is made available. Village Health Teams, Community-Based Trainers, local officials, and district and community health officers, as well as community members, are invited to attend.

In Burkina Faso, the primary focus population of the Bikes4Care project consists of widows, orphans, and families affected by HIV/AIDS. These individuals are given bicycles or tricycles to start small trade businesses with products (soap, cloths, etc.) made by the sponsoring non-governmental organisation AVO and/or other products. To sustain the project, particularly bike maintenance, AVO is selling advertising space on the tricycles.

In Nyzana, Kenya, outreach workers provide isolated communities with health information and health products that are preventative, including mosquito nets and water purification tablets and filters.

Health, Children, Women, HIV/AIDS, Malaria

During a ceremony in Kumi, Uganda, 108 health workers were officially handed a bicycle to enable them to improve their community outreach. A project launch took place in Apac, Uganda, equipping 168 health care workers.

The CooP Africa organisation also runs Bike4Work projects - training for bike service and modification - and a credit programme for purchase by small entrepreneurs. Their Bike4School project provides bikes for the purpose of student and teacher access to distant schools.