Motorcycle Taxi Rider Training in Two African Countries
Phase 1: A Springboard for Scale-Up The Puma Energy Foundation is supporting Amend to build our capacity to deliver safety training to motorcycle taxi riders. As part of this project, we will update our existing motorcycle training program and strengthen the skills of our team through certification with the Motorcycle Safety Institute of Africa. We […]
Safe Schools Africa
Billions of US dollars are invested in road development projects in Africa each year. Yet, despite existing safeguards, roads that fail to meet the minimum 3-star safety standard are still being built. Traditionally, the focus of road engineers in Africa has been on providing for vehicles – even though only a minority of people own […]
Be Road Safe Africa
The Be Road Safe Africa program, a collaboration between Puma Energy and Amend, aims to improve road safety for primary school children across Sub-Saharan Africa. The program focuses on education and community engagement to raise awareness among students, policy makers and the general public about the importance of road traffic injuries as a public health […]
Partnership for Healthy Cities – Safe School Zone Infrastructure
The Partnership for Healthy Cities, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and managed by Vital Strategies, supports cities in the planning and implementation of projects to strengthen non-communicable disease and injury prevention. The Partnership for Healthy Cities work in 2018 in Zambia was focused on road safety, but the consortium was having difficulty making progress on the […]
Safe School Infrastructure and 30km/h School Zone Advocacy
Over a three-year period, Amend and FedEx have partnered to implement Amend’s lifesaving School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program around schools and to advocate for safe 30 km/h school zones in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia. High risk schools in Gaborone, Botswana; Lilongwe, Malawi; Windhoek, Namibia; and Lusaka, Zambia received SARSAI, and […]
Safe school area infrastructure and 30 km/h advocacy in nine countries in Africa
The Puma Energy Foundation, the FIA Foundation, and Amend came together from January 2017 to December 2019 on a project to save children’s lives across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with safe infrastructure and safe school zone advocacy. The program countries were Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia. During the […]