In its silver jubilee year, Transaid has continued to transform lives through safe, available and sustainable transport. Transaid continues to be a recognised leader in road safety and access to health, implementing sustainable programmes in sub-Saharan Africa with local partners and governments, and utilising the knowledge of its corporate supporters to test new ideas.
Road safety
Thanks to sustainable local and corporate partnerships, Transaid has seen immense success in its road safety programmes across sub-Saharan Africa.
Transaid secured an extension of its work funded by the FIA Foundation to establish a National Helmet Wearing Coalition in Kenya, using its extensive experience in motorcycle safety. The 13-month programme aims to cement Kenyan ownership of the coalition, strengthen implementation of the current Kenyan Helmet Standard, and equip motorcycle users with knowledge of helmet quality.
Transaid recently partnered with Durham University in a 10-month project, funded by Volvo Research and Educational Foundations, which aimed to better understand the strategies young men in London and Cape Town implement to keep themselves safe while walking to public transport in low-income areas, and the impact this has on their employment and well-being.
Transaid’s Professional Driver Training Uganda project Phase Two, which forms part of the GIZ E4D programme, came to a conclusion earlier this year. The programme aimed to upskill drivers to take advantage of employment opportunities while equipping them with the knowledge to be safer on Uganda’s roads. In 2022 and 2023, the programme delivered training to 651 drivers and trainers, including 66 women.
Transaid also delivered essential motorcycle safe riding training, designed to reduce the risk of road traffic accidents, to secondary school education officers in Sierra Leone. This training forms part of the UK aid-funded Sierra Leone Secondary Education Improvement Project (SSEIP) and is led by global consultancy firm, Cambridge Education of the Mott MacDonald group, who appointed Transaid to carry out the training. By the end of the training, successful officers scored an average of 83% for both their bike manoeuvring skills and their on-road riding ability.
Access to healthcare
Transaid’s flagship MAMaZ Against Malaria (MAM@Scale) programme has transitioned to full government ownership in Zambia. This is a community-led project designed to tackle severe malaria in rural Zambia through the delivery of critical pre-referral treatment and the bicycle ambulance emergency transport system. The programme has seen an 87% reduction in deaths in children with severe malaria in Serenje District, Zambia, and the programme now reaches nearly one million people. Transaid looks forward to further developments under the Zambian government.
Between April 2022 and March 2023, Transaid and partners continued work to provide COVID-19 rapid antigen test screening in Uganda for truck drivers and their assistants, conducting over 2,600 tests.
Closing Remarks
Fundraising highlights from the past year include the 2023 London to Paris cycle challenge which raised more than £100,000 for our programmes. We welcomed corporate partners Iron Mountain and Brigade Electronics as well as five new trustees: Astrid van der Burgt, Paul Milner, Phil Kamutenga, Philip Roe, and Sharn Samra.
At the end of its 25th anniversary year, Transaid is reflecting on the past and already making significant plans for the future, continuing its work with current and new partners, addressing road safety and access to healthcare, and increasing its focus on achieving the sustainable development goals by 2030.
Transaid would like to wish all Warehouse & Logistics News readers a happy festive season and to thank Warehouse & Logistics News for its continued support for Transaid’s work.
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