Institute for Affordable Transportation Inc

Mobility is a basic need in the free market system, especially where resources and roads are scarce. In places like the African bush, women and children walk miles to retrieve water, medical clinics rely on man-powered carts or patients traveling by foot, and food cultivation is slowed without the power of a farming vehicle.

Beyond comfort and efficiency, transportation truly has the power to transform lives.

A child whose morning routine included a 3-mile round-trip walk to get water for her family, could be relived of her duty and sent to school instead.

A pregnancy complication could be treated in time through the use of an affordable clinic vehicle.

Goods could be easily brought to market, just as students could have a safe ride to school.

The BUV is a Basic Utility Vehicle. It is a high quality, low cost, rugged vehicle designed for rough driving conditions, hard work, and hauling heavy loads. It can serve as an ambulance, a school bus, and a delivery vehicle. With  complementary attachments, it can become a rotary mud drill (well drilling machine), a water pump, a lumber mill (with a Wood-Mizer sawmill) a farming tractor for conservation farming (Farming God's Way), and countless other items.

The BUV, developed by Institute for Affordable Tansportation, is a vehicle for change designed for the working poor in developing countries. This car for humanity can give better access to healthcare, education, and employment. This can literally mean the difference between life and death, and can help overcome social and economic obstacles that prevent many from achieving higher standards of life.

Where do we go, you ask? Simply, we go where there is a need. More specifically, BUV’s have impacted lives in Africa and Central America, while most of the impact has been made in Africa. All together, lives have been changed in 27 countries.

Our clients are an exceptional group of people that are committed to eradicating poverty and transforming lives around the world. Real change doesn't happen overnight and the people we work with are attacking poverty head-on. We delight in their successes whether big or small and love to share them. Here are some of our customers:

• CMF International
• FAME
• SIM
• Samaritans Purse
• World Vision

To make the largest impact in the areas we serve, our paramount goal to help establish hundreds of independently owned BUV micro factories in Africa and other developing countries that will produce and sell BUV’s for profit. This will enable local people to prosper, while creating a needed product, jobs, funding for ministries, and community goodwill. Through a Technology Transfer Program, the IAT will provide must-have resources to the business owners, giving them the ability to implement a micro factory.

The average micro factory can produce approximately 100 units a year and serve over 100,000 people in a lifetime.

The pilot micro factory is a partnership between the IAT and BUV-Tanzania, which empowers Tanzanians to build Kingdom Businesses that generate jobs and income for the very poor to break the cycle of poverty. BUV-Tanzania helps people by launching low-cost transportation businesses in Tanzania,  and provides opportunities for the very poor to improve their physical health and to increase their economic status.