

What leads to lengthy commute times to source water?
Josea is a 22-year old man who works on his family’s farm near Msitu wa Tembo, a village in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. For 2-3 days...


What is it like to carry a bucket of water on foot?
Wet and tiring. This is what the gb connect team that traveled to Tanzania in July 2017 learned first-hand. Hoping to better understand...


Who does the unpaid work of transporting water in Tanzania?
In July 2017, globalbike director and staff visited the bike rental and repair shop that we support in partnership with an NGO called...


What if your kitchen faucet was 30 minutes away?
Access to water is not a given. We know that 3 out of 10 people globally do not have access to safe drinking water (1), and 40% of people...