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Environmental health technicians like Ruregerero Vambe have the potential to prevent some of the world’s most deadly diseases like cholera, HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. ...
27 January 2012
Biking enthusiasts are invited to join comedian Ross Noble in a celebrity ride-out to the 2012 Carole Nash Motorcycle Show....
24 January 2012
Zambia says 'yes.' A new partnership between Riders for Health and the Zambian government to manage health care vehicles will improve health delivery and save money. ...
20 January 2012
Despite being one of the smallest motorcycle clubs in the world, Hesketh Owners Club’s first charity fundraising event has raised a fantastic £700 for Riders for Health. ...
20 December 2011
In November MotoGP star, Alvaro Bautista, joined 18 others on an adventure of a lifetime to see how he and the other MotoGP riders are helping people in Africa receive reliable health ...
14 December 2011
Riders for Health’s work was recognised recently when it came third in the International Health Promotion Awards, which took place on the 5th-6th December in Rome. ...
09 December 2011
Are you looking for a challenge for the New Year? Then why not run the 2012 Brighton Marathon in aid of Riders for Health on Sunday 15th April....
09 December 2011
Riders for Health drew its annual raffle on the last day of Motorcycle Live with one lucky winner taking home a brand new Yamaha Super Ténéré worth £7,000. ...
06 December 2011
New fund launched that will give millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa reliable access to blood testing, improving diagnosis and treatment of HIV and other diseases....
01 December 2011
Spanish MotoGP star, Alvaro Bautista, shares his thoughts from Zambia after day two on the Experience Africa motorcycle trip. ...
28 November 2011
SAIPEH’s Dairy Cow Project encourages donors to sponsor a cow or a goat which will be donated to a community carer like Judith who looks after children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. ...
24 November 2011
Spanish MotoGP star, Alvaro Bautista, has set off with participants on the Riders for Health Experience Africa adventure ride in Zambia this week. ...
23 November 2011
An incredible £4,000 was raised in just half an hour at Motorcycle Live on Sunday 22nd November at an auction hosted by Arai with fans bidding on signed leathers, pictures, helmet...
21 November 2011
One visitor at this year’s Motorcycle Live could become the proud owner of the Yamaha R1 machine ridden by Jorge Lorenzo during his parade lap at the 2010 Isle of Man TT....
16 November 2011
Riders for Health is one of only 13 organizations shortlisted for the Boehringer Ingelheim and Ashoka Changemakers Making More Health competition, recognizing our Sample Transport prog...
09 November 2011
Hundreds of people came out to support the official charity of MotoGP at Riders for Health’s annual fundraising event, Dià de los Campeones, at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in ...
04 November 2011
Since Marco Simoncelli first entered the MotoGP paddock he supported Riders for Health. Thanks to his support thousands of people are now receiving health care for the first time in th...
26 October 2011
Thanks to Riders for Health, over three-quarters of the outreach health workers in the Gambia are now able to reach villages that they were previously unable to reach. ...
21 October 2011
Viva Valencia, the upcoming charity motorcycle ride, will be auctioning off Jorge Lorenzo’s Yamaha R1 at Motorcycle Live...
06 October 2011
In the first in a series of new reports published by Riders for Health we highlight how reliable transport is helping health workers reduce tuberculosis. ...
04 October 2011
Biking fanatics Danny John-Jules, Matt Roberts and Steve Keys will soon be riding from the UK to Valencia to raise awareness of Riders for Health’s life-saving work in Africa. ...
29 September 2011
Members of the public paid to gain exclusive access to the pit-lane on Thursday 11th August before the 11th MotoGP round in the Czech Republic, raising £2,174 for Riders....
29 September 2011
Chris ‘Tigger’ Targett will soon be setting off on a 21,000 mile motorcycle adventure to raise money for our life saving work in Africa. ...
27 September 2011
People in rural communities may now be able to call for help, but it is highly unlikely any medical assistance will show up in time. It doesn’t have to be like this. ...
23 September 2011
Thanks to Riders for Health, the Gambian Ministry of Health has a new fleet of vehicles which serve the entire country’s health care system. ...
23 September 2011
Riders’ technician Thaele Seleke is in charge of Lesotho’s fleet of 120 motorcycles. Keeping them all running in the harsh mountainous terrain is no mean feat. ...
22 September 2011
The initiative will connect women in the USA and Europe with millions of mothers in developing countries around the world to engage with on the critical issues of pregnancy, childbirth...
19 September 2011
Riders for Health's CEO, Andrea Coleman, has been invited the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York from September 19th – 22nd. ...
16 September 2011
In Lesotho, Tukula Mothonyana is using a motorcycle managed by Riders for Health in the fight against tuberculosis. ...
11 September 2011
The third episode of the series features Takiso Setsabi, a Riders for Health Sample Courier. Takiso transports medical samples and test results on his motorcycle safely and quickly so ...
10 September 2011
In episode two of The Health Show, we follow three health workers in Lesotho as they learn how to ride their new motorcycles for the very first time. ...
09 September 2011
Riders for Health’s groundbreaking work in Lesotho recently featured in a new weekly documentary series called ‘The Health Show’ for BBC World....
08 September 2011
Riders for Health are aware of the explosion at UN House in Abuja, which took place on 26 August 2011. All of our staff have been accounted for and are safe. ...
26 August 2011
FACES is a family-orientated programme offering education, treatment and care to people affected by HIV/AIDS across 62 sites in western Kenya....
24 August 2011
Riders for Health has supporters based around the world who all help to spread awareness of the need for health workers in to have reliable vehicles to reach those who need health care....
05 August 2011
The team at Riders are producing a series of short films – one for each country we work in – to show you the impact that your support makes to the people who need it most....
01 August 2011
In Kisumu, trainees develop skills in defensive driving, basic vehicle maintenance and journey planning to help them conduct their lifesaving work....
11 July 2011
A one-of-a kind Triumph Speed Triple 1050 - the 500,000th motorcycle off the production line – has been auctioned at Goodwood Festival of Speed to raise money for Riders for Heal...
07 July 2011
Riders for Health are delighted to announce that they have been chosen as the official charity of one of the summer’s hottest shows: Laughs in the Park. ...
04 July 2011
Every month, Marvin visits the health workers to conduct preventative maintenance on their motorcycles. This way, the health workers don’t waste valuable time riding to a worksho...
22 June 2011
Thousands of MotoGP fans came to support Riders for Health at Silverstone yesterday (Thursday 9th June) raising an incredible £194,577 at the annual Day of Champions. ...
10 June 2011
The famous Day of Champions MotoGP auction capped an amazing day at Silverstone for Riders for Health. The auction raised an incredible £63,830 in just four hours, bringing the to...
10 June 2011
The Northampton based social enterprise, Riders for Health, has been highly commended at the UK charity sector’s most prestigious awards ceremony, The Charity Awards. ...
07 June 2011
To celebrate Triumph’s half a millionth motorcycle, a special customised version of the Speed Triple 1050 will be auctioned off for Riders for Health on 1st July at Goodwood Fest...
06 June 2011
Ducati UK is to auction the 1198 Valentino Rossi rode recently at Silverstone during the official launch of the new Silverstone Wing, with a donation from the sale being made to motorc...
02 June 2011
Seetsa Health Centre in Lesotho serves 30 villages in the surrounding area. With just one member of staff to care for everyone, most patients had to be referred to Mahobong clinic for ...
24 May 2011
Riders for Health is giving people the once-in-a-lifetime chance to ride on the back of a MotoGP bike with the two-seater Ducati piloted by legendary Grand Prix racer Randy Mamola. ...
05 May 2011
More than 850,000 people die from malaria every year, mostly young children. Of the 300 million annual cases across the world, 90% occur in Africa where malaria kills a child every 45 ...
21 April 2011
In Zimbabwe, Riders for Health manages motorcycles for 70 Environmental Health Technicians (EHTs) in Mashonaland East province. Luka Mukwenya has been working as an EHT for 21 years. ...
21 April 2011
Nine dedicated runners took on the 26 mile coastal challenge in sweltering temperatures on Sunday 10 April, raising nearly £7,000 for Riders for Health. ...
14 April 2011
Riders for Health’s Director, Global Strategy, Lakshmi Karan has just returned from the Skoll World Forum in Oxford. Here, Lakshmi reflects on a busy week....
07 April 2011
Five celebrities will swap the studio for the saddle when they fly out to visit Riders for Health’s programme in Lesotho and see how motorcycles are saving lives in Africa....
02 April 2011
According to former UN Deputy Secretary-General, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, unless there is a system for delivering health care in rural Africa, global investment in medicines and vaccin...
31 March 2011
In the Huffington Post Sally Osberg, CEO of the Skoll Foundation used Riders as an example to highlight the role of social entrepreneurship in international development....
29 March 2011
Riders for Health will be attending the Skoll World Forum from 30th March – 1st April. The theme of the Forum is ‘Large Scale Change’ and we will be showing how our w...
28 March 2011
Every year there are approximately 9 million new cases of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. Nearly 2 million people die each year because they do not have access to the necessary care or tr...
24 March 2011
Tukula Mothonyana is a tuberculosis officer working in Lesotho. He visits TB patients to deliver medication and advise them on how to take it properly. ...
24 March 2011
Riders for Health, the official charity of MotoGP, have announced that tickets for Day of Champions will go on sale at 9am on Tuesday 5th April on our website. ...
17 March 2011
Are you feeling inspired to take on a new challenge but don’t know where to start? ...
10 March 2011
Riders for Health's website is now back online. We have had to use an old version of the website to get back online, find out what this means for you....
07 March 2011
Read about Tsepo Kotelo from Lesotho in the first in our new series, Impact Story of the Month....
25 February 2011
Riders for Health are delighted to announce that Joan Ryan has been elected chair of our board of trustees....
18 February 2011
In January some of our teams from Africa and the UK shared their resolutions for 2011. You can now hear more of their goals by watching our new video on our YouTube channel....
01 February 2011
Andrea and Barry Coleman joined world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, as politicians, economists, influential business and development leaders came together for the annual World Economi...
30 January 2011
Ross Noble raised money during his Nonsensory Overload tour. We are delighted that Ross handed over a cheque for £42,000 to Riders for Health following the final show of his tour....
01 January 2011
Kameko Nichols, aims to form relationships with Ministries of Health and non-government organisations to help Riders replicate their successful, life-saving transport management progra...
09 September 2010
Riders for Health co-founder and 13-time grand prix winner, Randy Mamola has launched Riders' new Experience Africa ride, a chance to see our life-saving work in Africa....
27 November 2009
Andrea Coleman will tell health leaders that money spent on health research risks being wasted unless sustainable means of delivering health care to rural villages are created....
16 November 2009
HRH The Princess Royal visited Riders for Health to officially open our new offices, and unveil our ambitious goals to help thousands more African communities. ...
16 October 2009
Northamptonshire based Riders for Health won in the social enterprise category at the 2009 Third Sector Excellence Awards...
25 September 2009
Groundbreaking social enterprise and leading US university to show impact of reliable transportation on reducing preventable disease in Africa. ...
14 September 2009