Rahma is a Form 2 student at Mamire Secondary School. She walks a 14km round trip daily to get to school. It is a very long way for a 16 year-old girl to access education, and she is not the only one. With only 1 secondary school in the Ward where she lives, many children face a similar long commute on foot.
For Rahma and her peers, it creates many challenges: missing morning classes; feeling
fatigued; getting sick from exposure to annual weather conditions; and increased safety, because children are walking alone in the early morning
without an adult.
For Rahma’s parents, the cost of a bicycle is too expensive. Like most families in their rural village, her parents are small-scale farmers. The severe impact of recent drought on agricultural livelihoods, as well as ongoing inflation, has worsened poverty levels. So when ABC Impact, with the support of VelaAfrica, came to her school to donate bicycles, it was a joyful day.
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