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Future Projects

 

Transport:

Most children especially in the rural Kenya walk long distances to attend school, in the urban centers around the country, although the parents can afford bus fare for their children; there isn’t any transport system that caters for school going children. Our governments policy of  “take your child to school if you can find any” means that parents have to seek opportunities for school availability even if it means getting a school far away from home.

Some of these children have to cross major highways prone to accidents and other pass by dangerous wildlife areas. The only type of school transport available is where individual people have set up transport for various residential areas in collusion with school heads but this is aimed at fleecing parents. The costs are high.

 

We seek to establish a transport system plying major highways around the country in the urban centers as well as rural areas. This will cater for the disadvantaged school children, the elderly and the physically handicapped.

 

Leaving school going children to the mercy of business people to offer transport does not help much since the amount paid as fare by the children leave the providers seeking to have only adults in their buses. It is not unusual to see school children huddled together at bus stops even after hours because transporters have refused to take them preferring the adult.

 

We are seeking to partner with the current providers where they set some buses aside to transport school children at normal fares and Africa Awake will supplement for poor children. Those from well to do families pay the normal fares.

 

TRANSPORT

SENIOR CITIZENS & DISABLED PEOPLE

The Kenyan Public Transport system is really chaotic and only the strong can get access to it. The trains, buses and “matatus”, cater only for fast moving strong able person. Elderly people and the disabled persons have to stay at home and sometime we see people on wheel chairs being carted long distances for medical attendance or to beg in the streets.

 

We are seeking partners to provide transport for elderly people and disabled persons in the Country so as to make them feel part and parcel of our society.

 

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