Empowered women
drive community change!
Boda Girls is empowering Kenyan women to own the road — and drive health, education, and opportunity into their communities.
Your support fuels their journey.
What’s New
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What’s New -
MED25 Launch
MED25 is now the first official Boda Girls site in Homa Bay County, Kenya!
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Tiba Foundation and Boda Girls Named Global Finalist in 2025 .ORG Impact Awards competition in Washington D.C.
Boda Girls Go Green!
Matibabu's Boda Girls are piloting electric motorcycles that will help reduce emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change.
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A Future Toward Prosperity and Health
We know that female empowerment drives a community’s health. Boda Girls inspires and enables women to reach their fullest potential. Today in rural Kenya, thousands of women lack access to critical health care services and job opportunities outside traditional, low-wage women’s work.
This results in …
High rates of preventable maternal and cancer deaths
Young girls missing school, leading to dropouts, early pregnancies and financial dependency
A lack of skills and bleak employment opportunities
A lack of hope for a vibrant future
The missing link? Transportation.
71% of Kenyans live in rural areas that are often far from schools and hospitals. Due to limited resources, many rural women can’t afford the $1 fee for transport to health services. And even if they can pay for transport, women and girls are at risk when they ride with male drivers.
The solution? Boda Girls!
Traditionally, boda boda driving has been seen as “men’s work” — offering income up to ten times as much as the farm labor to which most women are relegated.
Through the Boda Girls program, women are breaking barriers. They learn to drive, build their own taxi businesses, and provide safe, free rides for other women to critical health services.
Each Boda Girl proceeds through a 15-course curriculum taught over 18 months, and receives a no-interest motorcycle loan, along with a contract from a certified partnering hospital. Over the next two years, she repays the loan by offering free transportation to pregnant women and patients in need. Like her male peers, she also takes paying clients — and invests that income back into her family and her future. A typical Boda Girls sees her daily income increase from $1 to $8 USD.
Moreover, with Boda Girls on the road, partner hospitals in western Kenya have more than doubled their numbers of hospital births, family planning visits, and cancer screenings — transforming women’s health in rural communities.