Organised by TransaidTransaid Month is a time for Transaid’s staff, supporters and friends to celebrate and promote our work during the month of May, as well as raising vital funds for our road safety and access to healthcare programmes.
Transaid is an international development organisation that transforms lives through safe, available, and sustainable transport.
Founded by Save the Children, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), and its Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, we work with communities, partners, and governments to address transport challenges across sub-Saharan Africa.
Everyone has the right to travel safely without the fear that they may not come home because of a lack of training, or dangerous vehicles and roads.
Everyone has the right to access to healthcare.
Every person should have the opportunity to build the skills they need to transform their future.
Donating to Transaid Month is already supporting our work.
£50 could fund training for a motorcycle rider in Kenya, where Transaid has been working since 2021 to establish a National Helmet Wearing Coalition.
£125 could fund a bicycle for a Community Health Volunteer (CHV).
£300 could fund training for a female driver in Ghana or Uganda.
£600 could fund a bicycle ambulance for a rural community.
If you'd like to help raise awareness of Transaid's work, or carry out your own fundraising activities, please click here to visit our Transaid Month webpage.
Thank you!
Nearly every minute, a child under five dies of malaria. In 2023, 95% of global malaria deaths occurred in the WHO African Region.
A maternal death occurred almost every two minutes in 2020.
Our partner-led approach to improving access to healthcare includes establishing emergency transport systems (ETS) to reduce the barriers to healthcare posed by lack of transport, especially for malaria treatment and maternal healthcare.
We are also working to strengthen health supply chains in collaboration with local partners and governments.
Bicycle ambulances are one example of ETS. In September 2019, CHV Anshal and his wife Betsheba awoke to their two-year old son, Wiseman, convulsing. Anshal quickly put his training into practice, administering a pre-treatment suppository called RAS which helped calm some of Wiseman’s symptoms of severe malaria.
They then travelled to the nearest health facility using the community’s bicycle ambulance, where Wiseman received further treatment and recovered. Anshal says:
Previously, there was no hope. There were so many cases of severe malaria here and there was nothing anyone could do. Now, I am very happy, without this project, anything could have happened to my son.”
Road traffic injuries are the biggest killer of children and young people aged 5–29 years.
The WHO African Region has the highest fatality rate for road traffic crashes worldwide, and is the only region worldwide to see an increase in road traffic deaths.
Our partner-led approach to improving road safety focuses on promoting safe driver behaviour and advocating for quality truck, bus and motorcycle training with long term programmes in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
We encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills at national, regional, and global levels to deliver sustainable change to driver training standards across sub-Saharan Africa.
Transaid’s Professional Driver Training (PDT) programme in Ghana began in 2021 with funding from the Puma Energy Foundation. The project aimed to improve road safety by raising training standards for professional drivers, and concluded in July 2024 with the launch of a new national heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver training standard.
Daniel Fiase is a driver trainer who has been driving HGVs for four years, and joined Transaid’s Training of Trainers (ToT) in November 2021. Daniel says:
“I learned other things just by doing them, but with Transaid I could understand the consequences and benefits of doing it a certain way, and that is how I want to learn.”
Under the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations has set the ambitious targets of ending the epidemic of malaria, halving global road crash injuries and fatalities, and reducing the maternal mortality rate all by 2030.
By supporting Transaid Month, you're joining a network of individuals and organisations all working towards tackling transport inequality and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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