(22 Mar 2025)
ZIMBABWE ELECTRIC TRICYCLES
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Wedza – 06 March 2025
1. Wide Anna Bhobha with Hilda Takadini arriving at a market in an electric powered tricycle
2. Wide Bhobha arriving at a stall
3. Tilt-up of women sorting tomatoes at the back of Bhobha’s tricycle
4. Wide women gathered at the back of Bhobha’s tricycle
5. SOUNDBITE (Shona) Anna Bhobho, tricycle owner
“My husband now relies on me to cover most household expenses, from groceries including school fees for our children and buying furniture. Before I could not do it but thanks to this tricycle I can now also chip in and help.”
6. Wide Bhobha at the market
7. SOUNDBITE (Shona) Anna Bhobho, tricycle owner
“Even my husband and in-laws have more respect for me now. No one used to listen to me, but now I have a seat at the table when important decisions are made.”
8. Various Hilda Takadini at the market
9. SOUNDBITE (Shona) Hilda Takadini, farmer
"In the past transporting our produce to the market was a nightmare we would wake up at 3 am and travel a very long distance using an ox-drawn cart but now it is much easier we can reach the market on time.”
10. Various technicians removing the battery from the tricycle to recharge
11. Various interiors of the charging centre
12. Wide Carlin Thandi Ngandu inspecting tricycles at the charging centre
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Carlin Thandi Ngandu, community engagement coordinator, Mobility for Africa.
“We are providing rural communities with affordable transport solutions, especially to women. Most of the women spend countless hours trying to reach the markets, the hospitals and also the water sources, so the tricycle has just improved the last mile mobility because most of the women could not get to the market on time and they could not afford some of the transport costs that were being charged to hire a vehicle to go to the market.”
14. Wide health worker on her tricycle
15. Wide women on the roadside waiting for the village health worker
16. Wide of health worker measuring a child’s growth with a weighing scale hung on a tree branch
17. SOUNDBITE (Shona) Joesphine Nyevhe, health worker
“As you can see there are pregnant women behind me. The other day I got a call to attend to a pregnant woman. I’m there to respond to emergencies, so on that day, I used my Hamba tricycle to rush her to the clinic where she got assistance."
18. Wide child walking past a tricycle
19. Wide tricycle with Josephine Nyevhe in the background
20. Various women on electric tricycles waiting for customers
21. Wide Bhobho with Takadini leaving the market
STORYLINE:
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Electric tricycles are transforming the lives of some women in parts of rural Zimbabwe.
They offer financial independence and social empowerment in a society long seen as deeply patriarchal.
Women were once dependent on their husbands. Now, women who own and ride the tricycles are turning into breadwinners and earning more respect.
STORYLINE:
Anna Bhobho, a 31-year-old housewife from rural Zimbabwe, arrives at market, her electric tricycle laden with tomatoes.
Bhobho was once a silent observer in her home, excluded from financial and family decision-making in the deeply patriarchal society.
Today, she is a driver of change in her village, thanks to an electric tricycle she now owns and uses to deliver crops for farmers in Wedza district, about 150 kilometers (nearly 100 miles) from Harare.
says Bhobho.
Beyond material gains, she has gained self-esteem.
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