10 Game Changers for 10 Year ! : 07: Improving access to health care with bicycle ambulances

Journal: Under the Sun: News from the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund

Journal: Under the Sun: News from the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund

Notes: Annual report issue.; One of ten short stories of PWRDF and partner projects.; "If you can judge the success of an innovation by how often it is replicated, then bicycle ambulances first introduced in Mozambique have been very successful. In 2010 Mozambican partner SALAMA firse created the bicycle ambulance, then Bangladesh partner UBINIG replicated the idea in 2012, with Burundu following the trail in 2014. The bicycle ambulances have connected people in hard to reach rural areas with lifesaving health care and have even evolved into boat ambulances in Bangladesh. PWRDF received a Civil Society Effectiveness Award from the Canadian Council for International Cooperation for its work with the bicycle ambulances". [Text of entire article.]

Subjects: Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) - Grants; Health - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Bicycles - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Bicycle ambulances - Mozambique; Bicycle ambulances - Bangladesh; Bicycle ambulances - Burundi; Bicycle ambulances - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada