(20 Jun 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lira, northern Uganda – 19 May 2025
1. Mid of Susan Apio leaving her house
2. Various of Susan pushing her steel reinforced bicycle
3. Wide of Susan riding her bicycle
4. Various of Susan talking to people in her community
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Apio, Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)
“It has helped me because when I am moving within the community I don’t take long, even I also don’t take time. it also helps me to cover a number of households within the community and also our facility is far we used to walk like for 1 and half hour reaching the facility the health centre but when they gave us this bicycle really it has helped me a lot to move to the facility.”
6. Various of Lira town in northern Uganda
7. Various of Buffalo bicycles in a warehouse in Lira town
8. Various of a technician assembling a new buffalo bicycle
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Hamuza Ali, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, World Bicycle Relief
“By solving mobility challenges that are within these areas we are also aimed at reducing the poverty levels, also equipping the people here with a solution to see that their household incomes are increased. However, we are now penetrating in other regions and you can hear that we have been in Fort Portal, we have been in Kabala we have also been in west Nile that is Yumbe, in the refugee settings that is Bidibidi, and Adjumani.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lira, Northern Uganda – 18 May 2025
10. Various of Hamuza and Lucy Abalo talking about the bicycle at her home
11. Various of buffalo bicycle at Abalo’s home
12. Hamuza and Abalo talking
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Lucy Abalo, Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW)
"I have some clients here who go and pick the drugs most especially and that is the most important thing that this bike is doing here in this community. There are people with underlying conditions they pick their ARVs (antiretrovirals) from our facility and I know them, so sometimes I also get busy, but whenever they come they pick their bikes and go and pick their drugs.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lira, Northern Uganda – 19 May 2025
14. Wide of Abalo leaving home on her buffalo bicycle
15. Various of Abalo arriving at another home in her community and talking to women
16. Various of Abalo with her bike talking to Barbara Akello
17. A girl passing a baby to Akello
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Barbara Akello, local resident
“When I was pregnant, the date I am going back for antenatal I can inform her that tomorrow when you are going you come and help me and carry me there because I don’t have transport. Help me so that I can reach there very early, but I would come back foot, but she always says I will take you and I will bring you back. And then now days I have the baby already she can come and carry me if I inform her that today I am going to take my baby for immunization, she can come and pick me up I always move with her and coming back home she can also bring us back home.”
19. Various of people in the local community
20. Various of local leader Augustine Okwir checking out the Buffalo Bicycle
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Augustine Okwir, local leader
“Their health I think there is now improvement because most of the people, the young ones they were coughing, but because of sensitization she has been using this bicycle they have changed their lives there is good health now not like the other previous times.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lira, Northern Uganda – 20 May 2025
20. Wide motorbike driving through entrance at the Ober Health Centre IV
21. Close of health centre sign
24. Various of patients
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