Doffa Bike Shop, employs four women who have gone through extensive training to become bike mechanics and operate a their own business enterprise.
This project empowers women to experience a new field of skills, earn their own income, and help break the social construct of gender.
Doffa Bike Shop, employs four women who have gone through extensive training to become bike mechanics and operate a their own business enterprise. Typically, this type of job would be given to a male. Through this female-driven model, Sanctury Retreats empowers women to experience a new field of skills, earn their own income, and help break the social construct of gender.
What makes Doffa Bike Shop particularly unique is that all the women employed at the shop are living with HIV. In parts of Tanzania, gender inequality and stigma against those living with HIV still act as major barriers to HIV prevention. In Tanzania, 780,000 women aged 15 and over are living with HIV. Doffa Bike Shop aims to empower these women to live a dignified life, fight the stigma of HIV, and fight discrimination.