Women at the wheel: the female taxi services bringing safety and independence to Bolivian travel

[Claira]

The first hint that something was wrong came when Jacqueline Diaz received a call at work from a friend. “You need to come here, to my shop, now. It’s urgent,” she was told. Diaz rushed to her friend’s shop in La Paz, Bolivia, where she found her daughter, Michelle, who was 12 at the time, crying and in shock.

That morning, on her way to school, a van had pulled up, the door opened and two men pulled her inside before speeding off. Michelle managed to escape by jumping out of the vehicle when it slowed down going over an unpaved section of road. When she stopped running, she recognised the area and made her way to the shop owned by her mum’s friend.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/03/women-female-taxi-services-safety-independence-to-bolivia-travel

What a great idea, and one that should be available everywhere.