At Safe Way Right Way, our efforts are directed towards nurturing road safety cautious professional drivers generation with clinical regard to gender equality in the transport sector.
In an industry greatly dominated by male drivers, Safe Way Right Way has amplified women driver skills by offering free professional driver training to women drivers in Heavy Goods Vehicles and Buses, at our Mukono Professional Driver Training Centre.
Today, we bring to your Ms.Kiberu Phiona, a beneficiary of the above named facility and how it has catapulted her to considerable career heights to rank just among the best that there is.
Background
Ms. Kiberu Phiona, a 45-year-old mother of 2 with now over 15 years’ experience in the driving profession was one of our beneficiary students in our 2021 driver training cohort.
In a 2021 interview with the Training Centre Manager of the Safe Way Right Way Professional Driver Training School, Mr. Isaiah Ngabirano, Ms. Kiberu retorted that she developed a love for driving from a young age and admired people that used to drive. Against all odds, she was aggressively deliberate about turning driving into her career, She said, “For a long time, I have always wanted to do men’s jobs and most especially driving”.
Phiona’s dream and its becoming weren’t an offer on a silver platter, she recalled that the community had made her believe that truck driving belongs to men and them alone, but that just turned out to not be true and this is because currently there are fewer men who could stand to be ranked equally as Phiona is. And how is that for a change of the narrative, huh!
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Phiona Kiberu had done so many different driving jobs. She was the first Woman to drive Uber in Uganda, and she went ahead to start her own company, Allena tour and travel, albeit truck driving retained a special place in her heart. And when a friend miraculously referred her to Safe Way Right Way, her life and career took a turn.
About her experience with our team at Mukono, Phiona said “Safe Way Right Way has the best instructors in the country, they are very professional and knowledgeable about driving and what drivers go through. This is a rare opportunity for all the women out there and they should take part in this”
Ms.Kiberu has since joined the transportation department at Hima Cement (La Farge ) group Uganda where she has risen through the ranks to become a top performing woman driver at the entity. She cautiously, efficiently and professionally drives Heavy Goods vehicles for hundreds of kilometres as her contribution to her employer and to the country at large.
Phiona has been awarded by Hima Cement (Larfarge Group) as the best female truck driver at the company. Safe Way Right Way too, was awarded in recognition for championing the Women on Wheels that has nurtured female drivers in the developing Ugandan Market.
All in All.
You too, can realise your dream! Be sure to get in touch with the Safe Way Right Way Professional Driver Training School-Mukono.
Safe Way Right Way is committed to the professionalising of driving in Uganda and in the region at large through providing quality training based on the East African Standardised Curriculum.
This training is made possible by Safe Way Right Way and its private sector partners, TotalEnergies MS Uganda Ltd, Total E&P Uganda Ltd CFAO Motors, AGL, GP Advocates,The Motor Center East Africa , Reef Industries.
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