Basic Utility Vehicles for Rural Transportation

Mobility is a basic need in the free market system, especially where resources and roads are scarce.  In places like the African bush,  quality of life depends upon affordable transportation.  In rural villages throughout the developing world, there are people who have never considered the concept of faster transportation.  Women and children walk miles to retrieve water, medical clinics rely on man-powered carts or patients traveling by foot, and food cultivation is slowed without the power of a farming vehicle.

Beyond comfort and efficiency, transportation truly has the power to transform lives.

• A child whose morning routine included a 3-mile round-trip walk  to get water for her family, could be relived of her duty and sent to school instead.
• A pregnancy complication could be treated in time through the use of an affordable clinic vehicle.
• Goods could be easily brought to market, just as students could have a safe ride to school.