The Ginigoada Foundation women bus driver training program will see a total of 48 women drive large buses and trucks.
The program started in August this year.
Ginigoada Foundation, a non-government organisation, aims to graduate these women drivers in February next year, 2019.
The women are put into batches.
Ginigoada has been able to successfully train and graduate 2 batches comprising of 16 women so far, with 32 more women to train.
The training for a batch is a month-long.
One of the participants, Belinda Paliya, said the training is very good as most times male drivers are very careless.
“Many times women and girls are always being treated unfairly at the bus stops so such training is good for us,” participant Janet Irame said.
Training instructor Paul Mien said so far the women training has been conducted smoothly with no incident.
Ginigoada also believes that when we have more women drivers in the city, it reduces the number of unnecessary road accidents because it is believed women are more careful when driving.
Meantime, Ginigoada assistant training manager, Rodney Graham, said at the end of the women drivers training program, they expect to train and empower women drivers to become confident and competent.
He said employment at the end of this program is not guaranteed but Ginigoada is hopeful that this training will make them become employable.