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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Wheeling and Healing PDF Print E-Mail
Written by Gail Jennings - InterPress Service   
Thursday, 06 August 2009

Article Source: InterPress Service

Written by - Gail Jennings - August 5th, 2009

Bicycles are enabling health carers to see more patients. And have more fun.

CAPE TOWN, Aug 5 (IPS) - Every weekday morning, a stylish procession leaves the offices of MaAfrika Tikkun NGO in Delft, Cape Town; bumps and jolts through the gravel entry gates; then hits the tar and scatters into every corner of the township...

In an area portrayed by the press as crime-ridden, bleak and desperate, the MaAfrika Tikkun health workers cruise the streets between shacks and houses without anxiety, on their elegant, black, single-speed Africabikes, their wire baskets and backpacks filled with the accoutrements of home-based care.

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