Our member companies support us with their expertise, as well as funding, by allowing employees with specialist skills to volunteer in our programmes.
This means that our projects can benefit from a wealth of first class technical expertise.
And those who volunteer find they gain just as much as they give as the experience enhances their own skills and competencies, particularly in leadership, flexibility and cultural understanding.
Although their placements are, on average, just two weeks long, their input is always part of a longer programme of work with a project partner and the focus is on skills-sharing. For example, volunteers don't train drivers, they train driver trainers. This ensures that the work they do is sustainable and carries on when they leave.
We hope it will inspire you to think that ordinary people working in the UK transport & logistics industry are committed to using their skills to make a difference and you can read some of their stories below.
Royal Mail in Kenya, August 2006: Vehicle Services Managers Mike Kington and Mick Whelan assess maintenance provision for health service vehicles and make recommendations on improvements.
Bibby Distribution in Kenya, July 2006: Driver Development Manager Brian Riddle and Regional Driver Trainer Dave Smith train ambulance drivers in the Kenyan health service to become driver assessors, in order to improve the efficiency and safety of the system.
MAN ERF and S & B Training in Nigeria, June 2006: Declan Donnelly, Pete Vill and Paul Sadler travel to Nigeria to build 3rd year MAN ERF apprentice Declan's design for a motorcycle ambulance trailer with local engineers and train the riders.
Pall-Ex in Ghana, April 2006: Pall-Ex MD Hilary Devey visits Ghana to examine the transport problems faced by women, health workers and commercial operators.
Wincanton in Nigeria, February 2006: Steven Ley and Keith Pulley train driver trainers involved in an emergency transport scheme for pregnant women.
Christian Salvesen in Malawi, July 2005: Paul Dorling spends 3 weeks in Malawi developing driver qualifications and training for transport operators in Malawi and Zambia.
- Wincanton in Sri Lanka, February 2005: Caroline Barber and Sandy Hughen help the Sri Lankan reconstruction effort by advising on supply chain efficiencies
