Doffa Bike Shop is Open for Business in Tanzania!
Our Bike Shop Program empowers local communities through social and economic mobility - allowing health care workers to see more patients, students to make the journey to school and families to carry more goods to and from home.
Doffa Bike Shop, now open in Karatu, employs four women who have gone through training to become bike mechanics and operate their own business enterprise. Through this female-driven model, the women learn new skills, earn their own income and help break the social construct of gender. What makes Doffa Bike Shop so unique is that all the women employed at the shop are living with HIV. With gender inequality and stigma still major barriers to HIV prevention, the bike shop aims to empower these women to fight the stigma of HIV and fight discrimination.
Guests can visit the Doffa Bike Shop while staying at Sanctuary Ngorongoro Crater Camp.
Doffa Bike Shop, employs four women who have gone through extensive training to become bike mechanics and operate a their own business enterprise.
This project empowers women to experience a new field of skills, earn their own income, and help break the social construct of gender.
THE CONCEPT
Doffa Bike Shop, employs four women who have gone through extensive training to become bike mechanics and operate a their own business enterprise. Typically, this type of job would be given to a male. Through this female-driven model, Sanctury Retreats empowers women to experience a new field of skills, earn their own income, and help break the social construct of gender.
THE EMPLOYEES
What makes Doffa Bike Shop particularly unique is that all the women employed at the shop are living with HIV. In parts of Tanzania, gender inequality and stigma against those living with HIV still act as major barriers to HIV prevention. In Tanzania, 780,000 women aged 15 and over are living with HIV. Doffa Bike Shop aims to empower these women to live a dignified life, fight the stigma of HIV, and fight discrimination.
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