Riders For Health: Teddy Wolff

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:46:38 GMT

]]>The Republic of the Gambia is the smallest country on the African continent. Its serpentine geography is defined by the flow of the Gambia River from east to west, where the river meets the Atlantic ocean.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:57:44 GMT

]]>A police officer receives a lesson from a riders employee in riding large motorcycles off road. The stakes are raised when the familiar cones in a weave drill are replaced with cement blocks.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:18:04 GMT

]]>A bike gets washed as a part of a careful maintenance routine. It is much harder to notice a problem if it is hidden beneath layers of dirt.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:00:27 GMT

]]>A motorcycle technician moves a Yamaha AG100 around the main Riders for Heath garage after a repair. AG100s were originally designed for agricultural use in Australia but have been adopted by riders for its ruggedness, low weight, and simplicity.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:34:40 GMT

]]>A community health nurse en route to another village. These nurses are the main source of heath care and advice in most remote villages and can be responsible for 15 or more communities. Before receiving motorcycles from riders, these nurses had to walk for days to reach their patients, and sometimes arrived too exhausted to treat the ill.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:37:34 GMT

]]>Between villages in the remote upcountry region during the dry season.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:22:50 GMT

]]>This nurse uses a Yamaha AG100 supplied and maintained by Riders for Health to care for patients with tuberculosis. A large fleet of bikes is already in use across the country but demand for motorcycles among health workers remains enormous.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:26:37 GMT

]]>Despite line of 30 people waiting to see him, the Chief Officer in Charge at Brikama Hospital took a moment to talk about the enormous change Riders has facilitated in the busy hospital's ambulance program by supplying a second vehicle and a reliable source of fuel. In the past, patients would often have to purchase some fuel for the ambulance before they could be transported back to the hospital.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:29:45 GMT

]]>Schoolchildren look out a window after receiving basic treatment from a community health nurse, who travels on a motorcycle supplied and maintained by Riders.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:31:01 GMT

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wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:40:19 GMT

]]>Pedestrians move among the cars near Serrekunda, the largest city in the Gambia

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:56:03 GMT

]]>Traffic around the city can be severe. Motorcycles can often find a way through, but that sometimes means sharing space with pedestrians. A man walks along the soulder of a street near Banjul, the capitol city.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:52:34 GMT

]]>A dancer during a drum and dance performance. The Gambia and many of its close neighbors, including Senegal and Mali, are renowned for their musical traditions.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:42:37 GMT

]]>The Chief Nurse at Bansang Health Center.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:03:22 GMT

]]>Known as an uhuru, this bike resides in a village on the outskirts of the the main urban region of the Gambia. Uhurus are bikes that have been retrofitted with a sturdy sidecar in the shape of a stretcher for transporting patients to a health center. It also has a trailer attachment, which makes it useful for agricultural work when it is not needed as an ambulance.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:58:48 GMT

]]>This man manages and operates the uhuru (sidecar ambulance/agricultural vehicle) that Riders for Health provides and maintains.

wolfft12@gmail.com (Teddy Wolff) — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:49:31 GMT

]]>Sunset on the Gambian Atlantic coast.