Our Vision
Connecting people to the medical care they need, when they need it most.
At the intersection of transportation and maternal healthcare, we found a massive gap in emergency care and locally made solutions. Geographically neglected areas often find themselves without any realistic, sustainable form of emergency transportation. Our mission is to fill this gap, by making sure every family is confident that they will be connected to healthcare when they need it most.
OUR STORY
Moving Health (formally The Okoa Project) started as a student project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab, where students design solutions to improve the lives of communities around the world. In 2016, through a discussion with a Tanzanian nonprofit, Moving Health found that expecting mothers were struggling to find transportation to healthcare centers. The all-female student team designed a trailer that can be attached to the back of any motorcycle. In 2017, the team travelled to Tanzania to work with community members to manufacture the ambulance trailer.
In 2019, Moving Health partnered with the Virtue Foundation to begin manufacturing motorcycle ambulances for Ghanaian communities in Sissala East. Our ambulances are now out in the communities transporting pregnant mothers, sick and injured individuals to local clinics and hospitals to provide lifesaving care.
OUR IMPACT
Since 2016, Moving Health (formally The Okoa Project) has been redefining emergency transportation by addressing geographically neglected areas to address the health crises that these communities face every day by providing opportunities for safer, faster emergency care. Unlike other companies, our primary goal is to use human centered design to create solution that the communities actually want, making our solution more sustainable, cost effective, and reliable than alternative options.
Our work fills a desperately needed gap by providing sustainable, low-cost emergency transportation in areas that do not have any. Not only do our ambulances save lives, but our intersectional approach to global health and technology allows us to capture our impact with precision and create opportunities through learning and innovation.
OUR AMBULANCES
In Ghana, where motorcycle taxis are rare, we partnered with local health centers to understand how we can work together with the community to find a solution.
Our Ambulance is a three-wheel vehicle designed to provide a community with safe, reliable emergency transportation. The most important aspect of our ambulance is to tailor it to the needs of our community members. By listening and understanding what our community needs, we included an extra seat inside the ambulance to reduce patients’ fear while on their way to the hospital.
The sustainability of our ambulances is dependent on the existing systems that keep costs down and allows us to create jobs for engineers, dispatchers, nurses, and drivers.
