E-bikes are boosting rural health care, powering business and cutting CO2 emissions in eastern Uganda. A government-backed e-mobility program is helping nurses, who have to cover long distances, to roll out vaccination programs.

The robust, solar-charged cargo bikes are helping to improve immunization rates. The sustainability initiative, supported by an NGO called Fabio and German-based company Africrooze, is also empowering entrepreneurs, who can lease, rent or buy the bikes.

Challenges like getting affordable spare parts and repairs remain. At the moment, only about a third of the bikes are produced locally, but Uganda hopes to double that.