Boda Girls are pioneering change as the first female motorcycle taxi drivers in their villages. They provide free, safe rides to healthcare in rural areas where distance and lack of transportation often keep women from seeking care.
Expanding Women’s Empowerment & Health Access
Boda Girls:
Boda Girls increase hospital births
Boda Girls Kenya is transforming maternal health across rural Western Kenya, where far too many mothers still give birth at home without a skilled attendant—and where a single delay in reaching care can mean the difference between life and death. In these communities, women have long faced the impossible burden of navigating pregnancy with long distances to facilities and without reliable transport or support.
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Boda Girls' average daily income rose, on average, from $1/day pre-program to $8/day. In two years, that money has helped every single one of them to pay off their zero-interest motorcycle loan and make generational improvements in their family's future. Several have sent their children to better high schools and colleges, bought land, and/or started businesses, that create jobs for others.
Boda Girls are trailblazing gender integration in the transit business
Less than 1% of women in Kenya work in the transport sector, but Boda Girls is changing that narrative. The program empowers women to repair motorcycles, coach fellow Boda Girls to improve their riding skills, and mentor new participants—building the expertise to enter well-paying areas of transport such as taxi driving, mechanics, and driver training, that don't require a high school diploma. Today, these trailblazing women are not only breaking barriers in a male-dominated field but also providing a pathway for the next generation of women to follow.
