{youtube}pMTSuevHdko|300|225{/youtube} Last year, Al Jazeera visited our Bike4Care project in Kenya. The video shown on the right was broadcased in Al Jazeera’s The Cure. Click on the video to view the programme and to see more about Bike4Care. For more information about the Bike4Care programme, click here.
CONTINUE READINGAnother 12 health workers in Kenya have received Bike4Care bicycles. Kenya has a system of volunteer health workers, who visit patients in a specific area. These visits are mostly done on foot. By equiping the health workers with bicycles, they can travel faster and futher and reach out to more patients. For this project we […]
CONTINUE READINGLoadOnTheRoad SC. has a great product to make cycling more effective and interesting: the RoadLoader. This is a charger that allows a smartphone, music player or navigation system to be charged while cycling. By purchasing a RoadLoader you support the Bike4Care projects of CooP-Africa. Of every euro profit, 30 cents goes to bicycles for health […]
CONTINUE READING150 health workers in Uganda have received Bike4Care bicycles. Volunteer health workers in Uganda visit their patients mostly on foot. By equiping the health workers with bicycles, they can travel faster and futher and reach out to more patients. At the launch of the programme speaker of parliament Rebecca Kadaga was present. NTV and Bukede […]
CONTINUE READING17 health workers in Kenya have received Bike4Care bicycles. Kenya has a system of volunteer health workers, who visit patients in a specific area. These visits are mostly done on foot. By equiping the health workers with bicycles, they can travel faster and futher and reach out to more patients. For this project we get […]
CONTINUE READINGImproving access to health care is the aim of our programme Bike4Care. This involves distributing bicycles to community health workers. But if they are on an island and the only health centre is on the mainland… What do you do? We provide a boat. It improves access to health care and generates income for the […]
CONTINUE READINGUnder the Bike4Care programme, health care workers of various dispensaries in Kenya are now using bicycles to ease their work. Community Health Workers in Chiga Dispensary have now been using their bicycles for 10 months. They use it to visit households to trace defaulters, deliver chlorine tablets, mosquito nets, among other public health interventions. CooP-Africa […]
CONTINUE READINGBike4Care is currently in the process of rolling out to Kisumu West District (Kenya). The Community Strategy Focal Person and the Medical Officer of Health think the programme would be a great boost to the maternal and child health care. Also, Community Health Workers on bicycles will have a great impact HIV and AIDS mitigation […]
CONTINUE READINGUnder the Bike4Care programme, a group of health workers in Nyalunya Kenya started using CooP-Africa bicycles in November 2012. Now, in June 2013 they are still using the bicycles, and are keeping them in good working condition. A majority reports that the project has had a great impact on their work and can now visit […]
CONTINUE READING{youtube}mxa6X0n2kCU|300|225{/youtube} Dr Javid Abdelmoneim traveled to Kenya’s Nyanza region to make a documentairy about the bicycles CooP-Africa distributed to community health care workers. He joins healthcare worker Kennedy for his first day of home visits on two wheels. Support CooP-Africa to give out more bicycles to Community Health Workers like Kennedy to improve health care […]
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