Eco-courier program is a youth led and youth targeting business that is exploring youth creativity to beat last mile connectivity challenges in the fast-growing City of Kisumu and Kenya.
Over time the city is witnessing tremendous growth in its economy enablers creating more complex and newfound opportunities and challenges to entrepreneurs residing in it. With the advancing infrastructural works and enabling environment, small businesses with fast moving goods are rapidly mushrooming in different corners of the city. This translates to a vibrant city where goods and people are moving efficiently, and this movement is paramount to effective and efficient access to products and services in record time.
The flow of goods in this space is paramount to ensure business can deliver products to target customers while at the same time the turnaround time for back-and-forth transactions is greatly arrested. This business has realized the urgent need to beat the growing challenges of goods within the city occasioned by poor connectivity between sellers and buyers of goods. In Kisumu, the main transport system and goods courier is the motorcycle which has enabled quick flow of goods and services. However, the fuel driven motorcycle is slowly proving to be a menace within the city as security of goods on transit starts to deteriorate. With the rowdiness and lack of customer skills, the use of motorcycle Is slowing proving to be ineffective, further to this, the noisy motorcycles and the pollution it creates through carbon fumes worsens the relations and creates an imbalance in economic and environmental prosperity.
We are embracing innovation and technology to create reliability for businesses and livelihoods for youths.Eco-courrier utilizes electric bicycles as a cleaner mobility tool to transform last mile delivery and a cleaner environment for a healthy city. Our delivery model embraces the combination of both technology and emerging urge to conduct businesses that are environmentally conscious.
Eco -courier introduces a mobile application that a business signs up to request for delivery and transport services. The business utilizes the online application that the seller of a product uses to request for transport services. Once the courier receives the request from his phone, he/she is able to get the product and deliver at the designated stop helping address the last connectivity challenges in its neighborhoods. The use of Bicycles as a delivery tool is proving to be effective in even maneuvering hectic traffic logistics in Kisumu.
Business also ensures that the courier providers are trained in business etiquette to skillfully engage potential customers. This is to ensure the riders conduct themselves with dignity, respect and decency to enable smooth flow of goods but also to exercise good and hospitable character to lure more customers into using our services. This business model seeks to bridge the unemployment gap in Kisumu while in the same spirit embrace technological advancement to solve some pressing modern challenges.