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Transaid, with support from the Employment and Skills for Development in Africa Programme, has launched an urgent response to support HGV drivers in Uganda during the Covid pandemic. The international development organisation is working with local partners to roll-out safety advice and provide hand-washing facilities, cab sanitisation materials and PPE. Truck drivers entering Uganda have faced hostility from communities and long delays at borders, often with no access to sanitation ...
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Eddie Stobart Logistics is to raise money for transport charity Transaid by donating the naming rights of one of its trucks at a charity auction at Multimodal 2019.
The auction will be held during the Multimodal Awards ceremony on Tuesday 18 June, the first evening of the Multimodal show, which takes ...
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Transport charity Transaid is inviting riders to sign up for its biggest ever cycle challenge, 972 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats. Participants can either sign up for the full 12-days, companies or groups of friends can split into a four-person relay team or individual riders can take part ...
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International development organisation Transaid has appointed Sam Clark as its new Head of Programmes. He replaces Caroline Barber, 37 who was promoted to chief executive in August. He expects to spend about three months in the field every year across the five countries in which Transaid currently has projects – ...
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A team of 58 cyclists from the transport and logistics industry have completed a 240-mile London to Paris ride to raise vital funds for international development organisation Transaid.
They faced hilly terrain and the long plains of northern France, to cross the finish line at the Eiffel Tower on 24 September.
The ...
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International development organisation Transaid has launched an appeal to find a second-hand tractor unit and trailer to support its new driver training project in Uganda.
Transaid urgently requires an artic combination to train hundreds of new commercial vehicle drivers in the Mukono district, east of Kampala, where Transaid has embarked on ...
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International development organisation Transaid has launched a major truck and bus driver training project in Uganda. Set to become one of its largest initiatives in Africa, the Professional Driver Training – Uganda (PDTU) project has received major external funding.
The primary role is to ensure Ugandan drivers are in a ...
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International development organisation Transaid has appointed Caroline Barber to take over as chief executive from 1 August. She will replace Gary Forster, 35 who is stepping down after 11 years.
Caroline first became involved with Transaid whilst on secondment as a Project Manager for Wincanton and joined the organisation full-time in ...
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Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken is to become an ambassador for Transaid. Having spent the last 14 years as Traffic Commissioner for Scotland and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport, she will be raising the international development organisation’s profile, as well as promoting events and creating ...
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Jo Godsmark has been appointed chair of the Transaid international development organisation, taking over from Graeme McFaull, who is stepping down after six years. She is a director of Labyrinth Logistics Consulting, where she heads up the supply chain division, and became a trustee of Transaid in 2014 and has ...
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