2026 Christmas Appeal
A brighter road ahead
Christmas and the festive season is a time for coming together and looking ahead with hope. Alongside communities, governments and local partners, Transaid is helping to improve road safety and access to healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa, where safe, available and sustainable transport can open the door to opportunity, livelihoods and life-saving care.
Every day, millions of people face transport-related barriers that put their health and safety at risk:
- Around 1.19 million people lose their lives on the world’s roads every year, making road traffic injuries the leading cause of death for children and young people aged 5–29.
- 95% of global malaria deaths occur in the WHO African Region, with children under five accounting for around three-quarters of those deaths.
- Around 70% of maternal deaths worldwide occur in sub-Saharan Africa, where delays in reaching healthcare can have devastating consequences.
This Christmas, you can help create a brighter road ahead. Your support will help Transaid and our partners improve professional driver training, strengthen community-led emergency transport systems, and make roads safer for everyone.
Together, we’re helping more people reach opportunities, healthcare and loved ones through safe, available, and sustainable transport.
How to get involved
Your support this festive season will help create a brighter road ahead for communities across sub-Saharan Africa.
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How your support makes a difference
Our partner-led approach to improving road safety focuses on promoting safe driver
behaviour and advocating for quality truck, bus and motorcycle training with long term programmes in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. We encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills at national, regional, and global levels to deliver sustainable change to driver training standards across sub-Saharan Africa.
“The training is fantastic, very good. The instructors are highly skilled. It’s a government institution, and there are also partners like Transaid supporting the training. It means there are more chances for people like us to learn.”
– Banda Helms, ITC trainee
Read Banda’s story here.
Since Transaid’s Emergency Transport System programme began in Nigeria in 2009, more than 19,000 pregnant women experiencing labour or maternal emergencies have been transported safely to health facilities.
“Had it not been for the bicycle ambulance, a lot of people could have been dying in this community due to the distance.”
– Minivah Miselo, who delivered her son Trust safely at a health facility thanks to emergency transport
