Everyday Annika and Carina work on social issues, in school and in social services. Annika is also politically active within the Center Party and there she also works with social issues. But this trip is something completely different.

Nine Swedes leave

Together with a further seven Swedes, they raise on Saturday evening from Arlanda with the target set at Kenya. For ten days, they will travel around various, remote, villages outside Nairobi. They move with motorcycles and the main goal is to help women.

- When you have looked at what makes women unable to go to clinics and give birth safely, you have seen that transport is an obstacle. There are bad roads and expensive cars. So then the association produces Eezer, which organizes the trip, mc ambulances, says Annika Tholster.

Have been with before

This is not the first time that MC ambulances have been delivered and some of them are following up on previous trips. For Carina Eriksson, this is the second trip she makes.

- Firstly, I do it to follow up on the work we did most recently. Now it is more about being able to contribute knowledge, but also to bring their knowledge back home, ”she says.

Parables with Sweden

It is also about being role models for women in the villages. To show them that even women can ride a motorcycle for example. Annika also draws parallels between the work there, and the job in Sweden.

- Here in Sweden we work with questions concerning the countryside, how everyone should have access to care. It is a current issue that women should have the right to a safe birth. The problems with accessible care are the same, but of different dignity, she says.

Behind the trip is the association Eezer, whose goal with the MC ambulances is to reduce maternal mortality in Africa. They have a target that by 2030 they have delivered 3,000 mc ambulances to various countries in Africa.