Tello Transport
Transport in the Developing World can be a problem due to poverty and isolation. This is especially the case in Tello (Pulau Pulau Batu), Indonesia, as there are only four vehicles on the island, so travel/transport is generally by motorbike, pedicab, bicycle or walking.
TroppoDoc owns one motorbike which Dr Derek Allen uses in Tello to get to clinics and to visit the patients in their own homes, who are too sick to travel. The bike is also used for ferrying the translator, volunteers and medications/medical supplies to the clinics and patient home visits.
While it is wonderful to have volunteers to help, often a lot of time is wasted in ferrying them all to different locations. A second bike would be very advantageous in helping with transport - thus allowing the medical team to devote more time to the free medical clinics and patients.
The cost to purchase another motorbike for Tello would be approximately US$1,000.
If you are able to sponsor a motorbike, or money towards it, please state: "Motorbike".
The photo shows Dr Derek Allen and Margaret Thorpe ( Nurse and TroppoDoc Director/Trustee) using the TroppoDoc motorbike to do a patient home visit in Tello.
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