Boda bodas are bicycles and motorcycle taxis commonly found in East Africa . While motorcycle taxis like boda bodas are present throughout Africa and beyond, the term boda boda is specific to East Africa. In Kenya , they are more frequently called piki pikis or Boda. Their ubiquitous presence in East African cities is the result of a number of factors including an increasing demand for public transit, the ability to purchase motorcycles on credit, and an influx of cheap imports from Indian manufacturers like Bajaj and high level of unemployment among the youth. In the countries where they are present, boda bodas can provide transportation options to riders and job opportunities to drivers while at the same time resulting in an increase in road hazards and collisions and unnecessary injuries and deaths.
29-589: Kibwezi is a town in Makueni County , Kenya . Kibwezi town is the headquarters of Kibwezi division, one of 15 administrative divisions in Makueni County. The division has a population of 80,236, of whom 4,695 are classified urban. The division has four locations : Kikumbulyu, Kinyambu, Masongaleni and Utithi. Kibwezi town is located within Kikumbulyu location. Kibwezi is also named for Kibwezi Constituency ,
58-466: A population of 350 students. Makueni County Makueni County is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya . Its capital town is Wote . It's the largest town in the county. Emali town which is an important market and stop over for the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), is another major town in the county. It is multicultural and adds diversity to Makueni County. The county had
87-610: A population of 987,653 in the 2019 census. The county lies between Latitude 1° 35' and 2° 59' South and Longitude 37° 10' and 38° 30' East. It borders Machakos County to the North, Kitui County to the East, Taita Taveta County to the South and Kajiado County to the West and covers an area of 8,008.9 km . The county has a number of prominent features in including volcanic Chyullu hills which lie along
116-502: A secretarial department which requires students to have graduated from secondary school. A primary school and preschool are for grades one though eight. Scholarships are available for need based students such as orphans. There are around thirty children in the greater Kibwezi area supported and sometimes under scholarship for educational costs. Students from very needy families benefit from the government disbursed bursaries. There are four banks and two credit unions in town. The largest bank
145-592: A station on the Uganda Railway between Mombasa and Nairobi. There is also a station for the new Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway a few kilometers from the town centre. The town is located along the Nairobi – Mombasa highway. Another road connects Kibwezi with Kitui . 02°25′00″S 37°58′00″E / 2.41667°S 37.96667°E / -2.41667; 37.96667 Masongaleni high school, 124-90136 Nzeeka. A mixed secondary school. The school has
174-776: A substantial increase (nearly 10,000%) of motorcycle imports to Tanzania from 2003 to 2015. In 2013, one source claims 300,000 were operating in Kampala, Uganda. Data from the Kampala Capital City Authority show 120,000 registered motorcycles in the city around the same time although the number of boda bodas could be higher as some are unregistered according to a representative of the Kampala Boda-boda Riders Association. The same source indicated in 2015 that around 40,000 were operating in central Kampala. Another knowledgeable source suggested in 2015 that
203-487: A total population of 987,653 of which 497,942 females and 20 intersex persons. There are 77,495 household with an average household size of 5.8 persons per household and a population density 6 people per square kilometre. Religion in Makueni County There are 6 sub counties, 16 divisions, 63 locations and 127 sub-locations. It has 6 constituencies and 30 county assembly wards and 60 sub-wards. Kivutha Kibwana
232-566: Is a ridesharing company for motorcycle taxis providing safe and efficient boda boda rides for those in need of quick travel across several cities in Africa. The startup was founded in November 2014 by Maxime Dieudonne, Rapa Thomson Ricky and Alastair Sussock. In 2014, the motorcycle taxis had their greatest popularity globally in Uganda, with over 80,000 riding the streets of Kampala and that was where SafeBoda
261-415: Is a total of 156 health facilities, 726 hospital beds and 1261 cots in the county. County has 815 health personnel of different cadre. HIV prevalence rate is 5.1% in 2017. There is one air strip and 8 railway lines with total coverage of 140 km. The county is covered by 7670 km of road network. Of this 6,776 km is covered by earth surface, 706 km is murram surface and 188 km of surface
290-756: Is covered by Bitumen. There are twenty post office with 4,850 installed letter boxes, 3,302 rented letter boxes, 1,548 vacant letter boxes and 31 licences stamp vendors. There are 420 trading centres, 17,390 registered businesses, 153 banking services (including agents & insurance, 882 mobile service providers and 382 agro-vets, chemists& pharmacies. Since 2010, county has six constituencies: Urbanisation by County in South Eastern Kenya Source: OpenDataKenya Poverty level by County Source: OpenDataKenya Worldbank Bodaboda A BBC journalist imagined its origin to be onomatopoeia. A competing suggestion
319-833: Is defined by the Presbyterian Church of East Africa as a Nendeni Area, a region for church growth. There is one church located inside the Kibwezi Educational Centre. This has been named the Bethel Church. Furthermore, there are approximately 14 smaller congregations in the surrounding villages near Kibwezi. The village churches are served on Sunday by evangelists (not pastors) employed by the Kibwezi Bethel Church. A few of these areas are: Kibwezi has also other churches e.g. Seventh Day Adventist Church near Kambua guest house and opposite to Kibwezi Teachers college,
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#1733093323610348-459: Is that the boda boda had an apocryphal ability to transport people across a border without a need to complete the paperwork using a motor vehicle would necessitate; i.e. from border to border. The term originally referred to the carrier business within smuggling operations across the Uganda Kenya border in the 1980s and early 1990s. The carriers either walked, used bicycles or motorcycles across
377-784: Is the Kenya Commercial Bank followed by Equity Bank Sidian Bank And Post bank .The Largest Credit Union is the Sidian Bank . One Microfinance program, run by Empowering the Poor in Development(EPID) - Kenya partnered with the United States–based, 501(c)(3) non-profit, The Walking with Africans Foundation (WAF) focuses on organizing and providing initial funding to Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA) groups. EPID and WAF jointly oversee 5 ROSCA groups totaling 120 members in
406-656: Is the first and former Governor after being elected in 2013 and 2017 general elections. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr is the current Governor and has been senator since 2013. Rose Museo Mumo is the first elected women representative and was re-elected in 2017 general elections. For Makueni County, the County Executive Committee comprises:- There are 78 ECD centres 997 primary schools and 375 secondary schools. The county has also 3 teachers training colleges, 37 Youth Polytechnics, 231 adult training institutions, 2 technical training institutions, 3 university campuses. There
435-833: The Kenya Assemblies Of God located at Muthaiga estate, the Redeemed Gospel Church also at Muthaiga, the Pentecostal Assemblies Of God, the African Brotherhood church at Maweni and the Full Gospel Churches of Kenya. These are the Pentecostal Churches Of Kibwezi. The most common form of transport is public minivans and buses. Within the town and its adjacent areas, motorbikes and bicycles bodaboda are commonly used. It has
464-619: The South West border of the county Mbooni hills in Mbooni sub county and Kilungu and Iuani hills in Kaiti sub county, Makongo forest and scenic view, Makuli forest and Nzaui hill. The county experience semi-arid climatic conditions with an average temperature range between 15C – 26C and Annual rainfall ranges between 250mm to 400mm per annum on the lower regions of the county and the higher region receives rainfall ranging from 800mm to 900mm. The county has
493-399: The border. It was the carrier business that was locally referred to as boda boda meaning border to border. The rider carriers were known to be very fast and expert riders. Soon enough some people in the bicycle transport business labeled their bicycles with writing boda boda as a proud budge for being fast expert riders. When one wanted a fast ride or delivery they hired a boda to boda rider and
522-1158: The country including Nyanza province, as well as in other East and Central African Countries. ABC has active ministries and churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and still continues to grow its reach in mission. ABC Primary Schools Include; ILALAMBYU ITHENGELI KAKETI KAKULI KALULUINI (KOMA) KAMUTISYA KANGONDI KANYONGO KANZAUWU KASEVI KATHANGATHINI KAVINGO KEAA KINGONGOI KISEKINI KISOLE KISOVO KITHIMA KITONGUNI KITULU KWA KASAU KWAKATHEKA KWAKATIA KWAMINGIO KWANGENGI KYAANI KANGUUTHENI KYAMUSIVI KYANDA KYANGUNGA KYANGUYU MAKUMBI MALUMA MASAANI MATHUNZUU MITHINIMALATANI MUKAA MULUTI MUSUKINI MUUA MUUKUNI MUUNGUU MWAMBUNI NZATANI OBUOR SEEKEA SIKA SYOMBUKU WAMUNYU ABC Partners & Affiliates Undugu TV Eastern Kenya Integrated College Manee Kenya Discipleship International ABC SACCO National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) World Council of Churches (WCC) All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) Canadian Baptist Ministries https://www.africabrotherhoodchurch.org/ Kibwezi
551-424: The factors likely to cause commuters to change modes to bicycles also highlighted mainly demographic characteristics (age, gender, and the individual's ability to cycle) as predictors of the individual's shift in mode to bicycles. These findings suggested that transport system improvements that could reduce the perceived risks of cycling, could perhaps have some of the greatest benefits to cycling in Uganda. SafeBoda
580-399: The greater Kibwezi area. The program provides initial loans without collateral, allowing members of peer groups the opportunity to co-guarantee repayment of loans and assume management of the revolving fund. The small interest collected from loans is reinvested into lending to more participants. To qualify and remain in the program, participants must meet strict monitoring criteria and pay back
609-401: The local electoral constituency . Kibwezi town does not seat a local authority but is part of Makueni County. The largest school is the Kibwezi Educational Centre, a partnership between the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) and Burke Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). It contains a polytechnic offering two-year vocational programs in carpentry, masonry, welding, and tailoring. There is also
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#1733093323610638-474: The original loans through small weekly repayments and contributions to joint savings. Qualified participants who own small businesses or who seek to establish small business enterprises are extended loans on a short-term repayment cycle (3 to 6 months). WAF was founded by James Munthali, a retired economist with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other members of Burke Presbyterian Church in
667-469: The preferred term for this form of transport is moto . In a study conducted in Mukono, Uganda among students, researchers determined that four factors have possible implications for bicycling. These factors were: the transport system and safety factors, the natural environmental factors, the perceptions of cycling that an individual has, and the demographic characteristics of said individual. A logistic model of
696-554: The public started referring to them as boda-boda. That is how initially the bicycle transport got the name boda boda. When the motorcycles entered the smuggling and transport businesses they out competed bicycles because of their speed, endurance and potential for distance and thus retained the label boda-boda which was synonymous fast riders. While there is no doubt boda bodas are commonplace in East African cities like Kampala and Nairobi , estimates of their number vary. Figures show
725-519: The streets. SafeBoda drivers are equipped with hygiene hairnets and a spare DOT-Certified helmet for their customers. All SafeBoda drivers are identifiable and trackable through their system. In a move to enhance road safety and community well-being, Meridian Group has donated reflectors to Boda Boda drivers. SafeMotos was launched in Kigali , Rwanda and has expanded to the Democratic Republic of
754-481: The suburbs of Washington D.C., United States of America. M-Pesa is a branchless banking service, meaning that it is designed to enable users to complete basic banking transactions without the need to visit a bank branch . The continuing success of M-Pesa in Kenya has been due to the creation of a highly popular, affordable payment service with only limited involvement of a bank. There are several religions represented in
783-465: The town. There is a mosque for the local Muslim community and several churches of varying Christian denominations. The two largest congregations are Catholic and the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA). ABC church is represented in Kibwezi township With many Branches including East Africa. Since its inception in 1945, The Africa Brotherhood Church has grown in leaps and bounds not only in all parts of
812-577: The true figure is closer to double that number. Across Uganda riding boda bodas has become a substantial source of income for many youths, providing livelihood to thousands of families in the country. In Kampala, the business has attracted tour and travel investors with one company 'Uganda Adventure Safaris and Boda Boda Tours' providing city maneuver as one of their exciting tour packages for many visitors and tourists in Kampala. Unlike in most other cities, motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali , Rwanda , are generally registered and considered law-abiding. Here,
841-615: Was begun. Speaking with CNN, Alastair Sussock said they wanted to seize upon Uganda's burgeoning young population which had relatively easy access to fast internet and smartphones. SafeBoda launched operations in Nairobi, Kenya in 2017 and in 2019 they forayed into Nigeria's Ibadan. SafeBoda provides training and helmets to drivers who access fares through its app. Their community of drivers all receive extensive training in road safety, first aid, and bike maintenance in partnership with The Red Cross to make them safe and professional while driving on
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