Health By Motorbike

04/21/2021

In 2019, the HbAM programs incorporated quality STEM education for High School girls in thirteen villages of Kwale County. A team of UW grad and undergrad students introduced a commercially available, affordable, and portable paper microscope (foldscope) to deliver basic science education to women and girls
Our goal is to further train secondary-school girls in community health and science to achieve the following objectives:

1️⃣ Increase long-term interest in science and build confidence in science subjects in school;
2️⃣ Increase pursuit of science careers after undergoing a simplified process of scientific discovery, by studying soil using the foldscope, observing soil microorganisms, and isolating antibiotic-producing bacteria;
3️⃣ Introduce health care careers and ways to pursue them;
4️⃣ Deepen the knowledge of community’s needs and barriers to obtain good health.

03/08/2021

Happy International Women’s Day!! Celebrating power and unity. Celebrating vulnerability but also resilience, empathy, courage, creativity, intelligence, passion and compassion.

02/26/2021

The leaders of the eighteen communities getting ready to mobilize the world for International Women’s Day Celebration!!

01/02/2021

Happy New Year to all!! Thank you all for your continued support, we appreciate your commitment to keeping this organization running.

We are updating all of our pages; this includes the creation of our new Instagram profile. Please follow us on Instagram at to see new developments and future updates.

Looking forward to this new year!

01/02/2021

Using all possible means, our goal is to create change from within communities to improve health outcomes, particularly for the wellbeing of women and girls in the Global South. We do this through three main objectives:

1️⃣ Provide long-term health training and community health outreach for women and adolescent girls in rural and isolated geographical areas and at-risk communities.

2️⃣ Train women and adolescent girls as community health workers to collaborate with local governments.

3️⃣ Use academic knowledge, community engagement, and human capital to achieve health promotion and sustainable development from within.

01/02/2021

Health by All Means ( ) is a program founded in 2015 by Dr. Araceli Alonso at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with the assistance and support of students and colleagues. This program originated in 2009 as Health by Motorbike, a 501(c)(3) organization devoted to bring public health nurses and basic health services to remote villages in Kenya via motorbikes. The project expanded in 2010 to include a community engagement component for student internships. In 2013, its innovative work was recognized with a United Nations Public Service Award for Gender, Health and Development. HbAM is currently part of the UW-Madison 4W Initiative (Women, Wellbeing in Wisconsin and the World: https://4w.wisc.edu/), working in close partnership with its Kenyan counterpart and its local Director Bendettah Muthina Thomas. We also collaborate closely with the Swedish organization

06/29/2016

Monday, July 3rd is the LAST DAY to buy tickets to our local Madison fundraiser! Paint with friends, enjoy drinks and snacks, and contribute to the work of Health by Motorbike!

Paint Nite. Drink. Paint. Party! We host painting events at local bars. Come join us for a Paint Nite Party!

06/24/2016

Madison friends!! Sunday, July 17th, we are throwing a painting party to support the wonderful health projects of our health promoters! If you or someone you know might be interested in going, please share!
*Less than 1 week left to get tickets!*

Link to event info and tickets: https://paintnite.com/events/1087446.html

08/21/2014

INVESTING IN HEALTH PROMOTION: In 2014, HbM has trained 13 Health Promoters from seven villages. These Health Promoters will work independently and as a team in their communities through the year.

08/20/2014

Can't stop taking pictures of this piece of African art

08/20/2014

Amazing! HbM and Moringa tree together in Madison, WI!!
Thanks Libby and Laura for this beautiful gift.

08/11/2014

INVESTING IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: More sewing machines for the tailoring school have meant more opportunities for the girls to create their own businesses, and fewer chances to get trafficked to the cities to work in the s*x industry.

Caption by Liliane Calfee