What does Riders do?
Riders for Health’s goal is to ensure that 21st century health care reaches the millions of people who so desperately need it. According to the World Health Organization, over 11 million people die each year from a handful of preventable and treatable infectious diseases such as measles, malaria and diarrhoeal diseases. Professional public health workers have the necessary expertise to radically improve the health of people living in rural communities, but one health worker can be responsible for up to 20,000 people scattered across miles of hostile terrain. Delivering health care on foot or even by bicycle is nearly impossible. Riders for Health is tackling this problem by carefully managing reliable, motorised transport. We put in place maintenance and training systems to ensure that African health workers have reliable vehicles that never break down, and which are run for the longest possible time at the lowest possible cost. Working within our system of managed transportation, they
