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Riders For Health
Impact

Supporting wider health delivery coverage: A wider physical coverage achieved by health professionals means that larger numbers of poorly served rural villagers have more regular access to health care. This will result in lower morbidity and mortality and the consequent potential for improved economic capacity. In addition to health assessment, the health workers provide advice and education to the communities they visit, improving the spread of knowledge of disease prevention techniques.

Spreading operational efficiency practices: The training and preventive vehicle maintenance system could be replicated not only for other health providers but for development organisations, NGOs, INGOs and other ministries working in harsh conditions on a potentially pan-African scale.

Focus on the poorest: The percentage of people living on below $2 a day in the three main target countries is 83% or higher. Latest available figures show the richest 10% of Nigerians receiving 41% of income with the poorest 10% receiving only 1.6%.

“I am so proud of our outreach workers, three of whom are Maasai women, a real phenomenon in this area. They have managed to learn to negotiate the difficult terrain, albeit not with mastery, but with a good measure of safety, and are streaming out into the community daily as an extension of the clinic.” Ann Lurie, President of the AID Village Clinic project, in Kenya

 

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