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About the Speakers

Barry Coleman Andrea Coleman
Barry Coleman Andrea Coleman

 

Riders for Health

Event: Global Speakers Series
Date: Wednesday, May 18th

Barry and Andrea Coleman began building Riders for Health in the late 1980s. Originally a branch of Save the Children, Riders became a registered U.K. charity in its own right in 1996. The organization is now a $5.5 million nonprofit social enterprise to which African governments outsource the maintenance of health care vehicles. Barry, a practical thinker, developed the vehicle management regimen that Riders calls its “planned preventive maintenance” system, and Andrea pioneered methods of generating income to support the system.

Today, Riders manages more than 1,200 vehicles delivering health care to more than 10.8 million people in nine sub-Saharan African countries. With the Riders program, motorcycles that used to last for less than one year now deliver health care for five or six years, saving both money and lives.

Award-winning social entrepreneurs Andrea and Barry Coleman jointly lead the organization, while Mamola continues to advocate for it in the motorcycle racing community.

      
     

    An Introduction to Riders for Health

     

    Selected Articles

    Due to contractual arrangements, access to some articles may be restricted to the Stanford community, and subscribers of the "Library Databases" offered through the GSB Alumni's Lifelong Learning Program. Inclusion below does not imply University endorsement of the ideas expressed.

    • Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
      New York Times, 10/18/10
      In some countries, Riders provides vehicles ─ for example Gambia’s health system leases all its vehicles from Riders. But what makes Riders different is that in all of the seven countries it works in, it focuses on keeping the vehicles running.
    • Fueling Growth
      Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2010
      In 1986, former British motorcycle racer Andrea Coleman was managing public relations for American motorcycle race champion Randy Mamola. Mamola wanted to lend his prestige to help fundraise for a children’s cause in Africa. Andrea and her husband, Barry Coleman, formerly a motorcycling correspondent and feature writer for the British Guardian newspaper, joined Mamola in raising funds through motorcycling events.
    • In Africa and at Home, Supply Chains Are Getting Kinder and Greener
      Center for Social Innovation, 6/3/09
      Hailed as "Heroes of Global Health" by Time magazine, Andrea and Barry Coleman are making sure that millions of people across Africa are receiving regular, reliable health care, sometimes for the first time in their lives.
     

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