Your support will help us to continue our essential work in sub-Saharan Africa, strengthening professional driver training standards, and improving rural access to healthcare.

Transaid's portfolio of road safety programmes continues to grow, and they are focused on influencing safe driver behaviour, with long term programmes in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In 2021, Transaid launched a professional driver training programme in Mozambique, and also entered into phase-two of the professional driver training programme in Uganda. Nahabwe Sharon Kinyatta is a female driver on the Professional Driver Training Uganda Phase Two (PDTU2) programme.

The innovative community-led programme, MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM) at Scale programme has expanded coverage to 10 districts and is reaching a population of one million people with its severe malaria and COVID-19 response. Emergency Transport Schemes (ETS) provide a vital link between rural communities and health services, as part of the MAM at Scale programme. ETS riders are volunteers who serve their communities by using bicycle ambulances to take people to health facilities in medical emergencies.

£20 could fund a COVID-19 protection package for a long-distance truck driver in Uganda where Transaid has been working to raise awareness of symptoms and prevention, provide access to fast, quality COVID-19 testing for truck drivers at border crossings, tackle vaccine hesitancy and integrate road safety messaging.

£125 could fund a bicycle for a Community Health Volunteer (CHV). CHVs are working to combat severe malaria in rural Zambia by educating families on the danger signs, administering RAS (rectal artesunate), a pre-treatment for children with suspected severe malaria, and referring patients to health facilities for further treatment.

£300 could fund training for a female driver in Ghana or Uganda. Several of our programmes are focused around championing female inclusion in the transport and logistics sector, and the Professional Driver Training (phase two) programme in Uganda aims to increase the number of female HGV and PSV drivers on the road.

£550 could fund a bicycle ambulance for a rural community. The bicycle ambulance helps women, children and men in rural communities in Africa to reach vital health services when they are most needed, it is a simple but much needed solution that can make a huge difference.

With your help, we can continue to transform lives through safe, available, and sustainable transport. See here for more information on our programmes.