Bilyaminu’s story: how drivers in Nigeria are making a difference with ETS
Bilyaminu Mohammed is a volunteer Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) driver from Adudu Ward, in Obi Local Government Area (LGA), Nigeria. He is the fifth of twenty siblings in a very large family of farmers. He lives with his wife – who runs a small local convenience shop – and two children in his father’s home, a large house that they share with in-laws and a few of his siblings. ETS is a free of charge service in which volunteer drivers from the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) take pregnant women to health facilities if they are in labour…
