He has a two-wheeled ambulance!
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Health workers clean off Germain Kalubenge’s motorbike after taking a suspected Ebola case to an Ebola transit center. (AP) -
A woman sits with her sick five-year-old daughter after being driven for treatment by motorcycle taxi driver Germain Kalubenge. (AP) -
Mr. Kalubenge is a motorcycle taxi driver and also an Ebola survivor in eastern Congo. (AP) -
Families trust Mr. Kalubenge to take them to the doctor to see if their loved ones have Ebola. (AP) -
Germain Kalubenge has to clean his motorcycle with a bleach wash after carrying a sick rider. (AP)
Where do you go when you are very sick? Some people in Congo are afraid of doctors and clinics.
Germain K. was once very ill. Doctors helped. He got better.
Mr. K. wants other sick people to get well too. He says, “I was well cared for.” They feel safe with him. He takes them to the clinic on his motorcycle!
READ MORE: Germain Kalubenge got a virus that made him very sick. He went to a hospital for help. Some of his neighbors think they will get sicker in an ambulance and at a hospital. He tells them, “I was cured.” They will let him take them to the hospital on his motorcycle. He says, “It encourages me to help people who are suffering.” After Jesus healed a man, He said in Mark 5:19, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.”
