Nurses in Zimbabwe will be trained to ride motorcycles safely, allowing them to extend their reach and care for more than 20,000 people each year.

Health > Reach the unreached! Delivering care in Africa

Reach the unreached! Delivering care in Africa

Summary

Training one public health nurse (phn) to ride and maintain her motorcycle to provide delivery of immunization and disease prevention. read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $21,000 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Billions of dollars are spent on healthcare and vaccines. Nevertheless, one quarter of children born every year - 34 million infants – is still unprotected. Help cannot reach these children and their mothers cannot access services – because there is no transportation infrastructure. Training one public health nurse to ride quickly and safely to her allocated communities means that up to 20,000 people, isolated by distance, hostile terrain and poverty, will receive healthcare and support.

Activities

Train one public health nurse at Riders’ International Academy of Vehicle Management in Zimbabwe in safe riding and motorcycle maintenance on a motorcycle donated by Honda.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $21,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $21,000. The original project funding goal was $21,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

A fully-mobilized nurse in Africa can help 20,000 people each year to resist diseases such as measles and malaria. Once free from the debilitating effects of such simple diseases, people have the strength to sustain themselves and their families.

Project Message

"Thanks to Riders' training my bike never falters and provides unbroken service to people who need me."
- Jenipher Mutede, PHN from impoverished Manicaland, Zimbabwe

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andrea Coleman,
Chief Executive Officer - Finance
3 New Street
Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 4BT
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0) 1327 300047
Email:

Project Sponsor

World Bank Development Marketplace

Organization

Riders for Health
3 New Street
Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 4BT
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0) 1327 300047
http://www.riders.org

Learn more about Riders for Health and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Zimbabwe and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Zimbabwe, read the Human Development Report on Zimbabwe or the Wikipedia entry for Zimbabwe.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on September 29, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 18, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

Riders for Health Zimbabwe

By Astrid Jenkinson - Fundraising Officer, September 29, 2008 09:31 PM

In Zimbabwe, GlobalGiving donors have been supporting the training of Environmental Health Technicians (EHTs) in riding and the basic maintenance of motorcycles. Riders would like to thank all the donors on GlobalGiving for allowing us to complete this training and give EHTs the transport they need to reach their communities, day in, day out.

Links: