The village has received 60 bicycles from the Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) so that they can look after the sick in their community more effectively.

BEN has donated 500 bicycles countrywide since it started its operations in Namibia.

Second-hand bikes are imported, refurbished and distributed to mainly HIV-AIDS care organisations.

The bicycles allow home-based caregivers to travel three times faster, carry more medical supplies and cover greater distances in order to help those in need in their communities.

With the aid of bicycles, the caregivers are able to take care of three times more people.

BEN Namibia also trains community members as mechanics so that the bicycles can be maintained in the most remote corners.

It recently sent 20 bicycles to a village in Mozambique, where they were handed over to a women's empowerment network.

The bicycles were simplified and modified in the BEN Namibia workshop in Windhoek to suit the area they are going to in Mozambique.

By removing the gear sprockets, the bicycles are easier to maintain and to ride in thick sand.

Danny Heyman from BEN Namibia visited the Mozambican village to train women as mechanics.

The aim of BEN Namibia is to see every home-based caregiver in Namibia equipped with a bicycle in the next five years, as they are the backbone in the fight against the pandemic.

Nedbank has donated N$71 000 to BEN Namibia to help it archive this goal.

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