heroes

the next few posts will be about the true heroes. those folks using globalbikes to care for those who need it the most.


tomaida ailesi banda has been a community care worker for 12 years. she was introduced to the work by a catholic nun. the volunteer work she was doing with the nun made her feel the need to help tuberculosis and hiv/aids patients within the community. she also works with patients who are homeless. she uses her globalbike to travel between 1km to 15km. the areas she works in are considered low costs. my friend yvonne mulenga who works at pci says this about low costs areas:

"Households in Zambia are clustered into low cost, medium cost and high cost
areas/communities. The characteristics of low cost households are; no
electricity, source of drinking water is open public well or communal tap,
sanitation facilities are mainly pit latrines and the flooring material is
usually made of earth/mud. Basically these are poor households and at the bottom of the social stratum. They cannot afford to send children to school and mainly
send them to community ‘free’ schools."