About Us Who We Serve

Employee:

Zambikes trains, mentors and employs nearly 40 Zambians to fulfill and oversee all departments within Zambikes. As a result, employees have been able to send their children to school, build their own safe and sustainable homes and contribute positively to their communities. Some have even started their own businesses utilizing their Zambikes products and employing additional Zambians. The transferable skills acquired through Zambikes empowers each individual with confidence to take advantage of the opportunities afforded them.

Doctor and Health Care Worker:

Very few medical workers and doctors within Zambia work out of one location. Many travel extensive distances to provide in-home care for their patients. The terrain is unpredictable, creating greater boundaries for doctors to reach a patient and provide urgent care. Zambikes has partnered with organizations such as World Vision, Solon Foundation, Self Help Africa, and others, to get hundreds of bicycles and ambulance trailers in to the hands of medical workers this year. With their bikes and trailers, recipients are providing life saving treatment to individuals on a daily basis.

Entrepreneur:

55% of the Zambian population is living on less than $2 a day. The cause is not a lack of desire to find additional means of income, but instead a lack of opportunities to do so. With a Zambike, and even a Zamcart trailer, entrepreneurs can transport multiple times more than what they could on foot or on a less reliable bicycle. Recent recipients of the Zamcart trailers have doubled their daily income, affording them the ability to send their children to school, provide for their families and even open savings accounts.

Father:

Time spent with children is invaluable, yet is often sacrificed first in a father’s effort to provide for his family. The distance required to travel to and from work, or to the market and back, oftentimes takes hours each day. With a bicycle, the time required to cover the same distance is dramatically reduced. Thus, more time is available to be invested back into family.

Child:

In Zambia, tuition is free for children up until the age of 7. Because parents can not afford to pay tuition in most cases, most students will drop out of school after the age of 7. With access to transportation for family businesses, parents can earn 4 times the income to more easily pay tuition for their children. Education is the first step out of poverty. It is crucial in any developing country to focus on the education of the next generations to empower them to lift themselves out of poverty.

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