2025 has been another remarkable year of impact for Transaid, powered by the commitment of partners and supporters. Together with its partners, Transaid has continued working towards the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals, improving well-being, tackling poverty, promoting equality, and ensuring safer, more sustainable transport for all. These priorities sit at the heart of Transaid’s 2025 Christmas Appeal, Safer Journeys, Brighter Futures, which is helping the international development organisation to extend life-saving transport solutions where they are most needed.
Road safety
Transaid’s road safety work has continued to expand, with more than 9,000 professional drivers, trainers, and riders trained across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, as well as over 40 trainers to embed high-quality standards locally. This “train-the-trainer” model helps safer practices endure long after projects end.
In Ghana, the nationwide roll-out of the new Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) driver training standard accelerated. Alongside the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority, Transaid strengthened training and assessment systems for commercial drivers. Since August 2024, nearly 5,000 drivers have been reached with education aligned to the new standard.
In Kenya, Transaid continued to lead the third phase of the National Helmet Wearing Coalition, tackling gaps in helmet quality, awareness and enforcement. July saw Transaid convene the second Safe African Helmets Initiative (SAHI) Summit in Nairobi, bringing together 76 participants from nine countries to drive progress on helmet standards and compliance across sub-Saharan Africa.
In South Africa, Transaid’s partnership with the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) Women’s Desk and Sonke Gender Justice focused on improving safety for women working in, or travelling by, minibus taxis in the Western Cape. Nine taxi associations, representing more than a thousand vehicles, adopted the Safe Minibus Taxi Charter.
Access to healthcare
Reliable transport can be the difference between life and death for mothers and children in remote areas. In Zambia, Transaid and partners’ Mobilising Access to Maternal Health (MAMaZ) and MAMaZ Against Malaria programmes continued strengthening emergency transport systems in hard-to-reach areas. During 2025, Transaid delivered fourteen bicycle ambulances and trained 131 community health volunteers, plus 42 riders and custodians, whose life-saving skills ensure timely care for pregnant women and young children with suspected severe malaria. Transaid also developed global guidelines so that the MAMaZ approach in Zambia can be scaled. Members of the MAMaZ team have helped train trainers in Nigeria – the country with the largest malaria burden in the world.
In Kenya, a new programme launched in 2025 in collaboration with North Star Alliance has focused on connecting commercial drivers with essential health services and road safety information. More than 1,700 factsheets on HIV/AIDS testing and cargo safety were distributed, and footfall at two Wellness Centres rose by over 100 percent. Outreach highlighted widespread eyesight problems among drivers, so the programme delivered eye tests to over 4,000 drivers and provided 971 pairs of glasses: simple interventions with a direct safety payoff. The work continues into 2026.
Thank you
Every donation to Transaid’s 2025 Christmas Appeal, Safer Journeys, Brighter Futures, helps scale proven road safety and access to healthcare programmes, so more people can travel safely, and more families can reach vital services in time.
Global collaboration remains at the heart of all that Transaid does, and your support is what makes this possible.
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