A significant aim of Africycle is to perpetuate community based health care (CBHC).  By providing bicycles, we enable health care workers to reach more patients with life saving educational material, as well as medications for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.  Africycle provides training in mechanical maintenance as well as safe use of the bicycles we supply to CBHC workers.

The statistics are staggering:

13 000 000 people live in Malawi. Of these 13 million people, less than 200 of them are qualified doctors.

940 000 Malawians are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. Among this number 91 000 are children and 500 000 are women.

1 000 000 Children are estimated to be orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Many of these children live in extreme poverty, unable to attend school and are at high risk of being infected with HIV/AIDS themselves.

85 000 Malawians die each year as a result of HIV/AIDS. The average lifespan of a person living in Malawi is 36 years.

80% of Malawians live rural areas which offer very limited, or no access to medical treatment facilities.

Malawi has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, compounded by a severe food shortage and widespread malnutrition.  Malawi is overwhelmed with the task of addressing this crisis, but lacks the needed infrastructure.

Our opportunity is to meet local health care volunteers and workers in their willingness to do something about this crisis, providing them the capacity to reach more people and be the most effective they can.

Sponsor a bicycle today, and you will help to impact many lives in communities that are so desperate for the most basic of care.

Bicycles DO make a difference!