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Funds boost for Transaid training in Ghana

[ October 25, 2023   //   ]

Logistics non-profit organisation Transaid has secured a Movement for Good Award from the Benefact Group. It will use it to fund more ‘training of trainers’ for its professional driver project in Ghana, where the demand for HGV drivers is increasing rapidly,  and where some 7,000 people are killed in road traffic collisions year.

The undisclosed sum forms part of a share of £500,000 being donated by Benefact Group to charities. Transaid joined more than 900 charities applying for the funding after an introduction from the Road Haulage Association, whose insurers, Lloyd White, are part of the Benefact Group.

Transaid programmes support manager, Jason Finch, says: “Our focus remains on upskilling local driver trainers in accordance with a newly developed HGV driver training standard – which will benefit hundreds of new and existing professional drivers, as well as improve the safety of thousands of other road users and roadside communities they interact with each year.

“This specific input will be focused on practical training, with a light supporting theory recap. It will also enable all professional driver trainers to be equipped with a full set of personal protective equipment, plus the supply of promotional materials to encourage more fleets and drivers to undertake the training.”

The mainstay of Transaid’s professional driver training programme in Ghana is being funded by Puma Energy Foundation. The three-and-a-half-year project began in 2021 and has brought Transaid’s successful road safety work to West Africa for the first time.

For more information and to find out how to support the organisation visit www.transaid.org.

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