Until a few years ago, Zimbabwe’s Anna Bobo was asking her husband even for a loaf of bread. Today, he asks her money to buy furniture. What did you intervene? An electric tricycle. In a country where patriarchy is not just social given but an institutional obstacle, women come forward – literally and metaphorically – at the wheel of a vehicle that resembles a symbol of revolution than a simple means of transport. The tricycles called “hamba” (that is, “go” to Ndebele language), move with solar energy and have the power to transform lives. The Startup Mobility for Africa program launched 2019, offering these vehicles to women with just $ 15 a month. Today, women like Anna can acquire them in doses and change not only their own fate but also their whole community. Anna now carries products to the local market, has its own grocery store, privately owned field and car […]
Source: News Beast
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