Have you ever wondered or felt that you were supposed to do something great with your life? And while you've felt that, the years have slipped through your hands like sand, and you find yourself thinking: "I'm past 40 now, there just isn't anymore time?" Thankfully for millions of people who live in rural Africa, Andrea Coleman didn't give in to that voice; for when she was 42 years old, she and her husband combined their life's passion for motorcycles with the complex problem of delivering health care to nearly unreachable areas of rural Africa. In this interview with host Sheela Sethuraman, Andrea shares the story of how she founded Riders for Health (Riders).

While motorcycles had been used before to try and deliver health care, it took the unique experience of Andrea to recognize that regular and effective motorcycle maintenance was the key to building a mobile health care delivery team that could conquer the vehicle unfriendly outer reaches of Africa. With the help of motorcycle champion Randy Mamola and Save the Children, a visit to Somlia transformed Andrea's life and has lead to a five fold increase in the number of patients seen, and five times more visits for each patient. Also with regular deliveries of simple health care prevention supplies like mosquito nets and condoms, Riders easily prevents thousands from getting sick in the first place.

Riders focused on training mechanics to keep motorcycles running and they also started raising money for the organization by putting on events in the motorcycle community. By persuading stars of the motorcycle racing industry to donate their time, they were able to charge an entry fee for these events and then donated to Riders. While this strategy remains the cornerstone of their fundraising, they now run auctions, take donations and work with a wide range of partners on developing transport infrastructure for Africa.

With over 1,000 vehicles and over 135 health workers, it is estimated that Riders for Health delivers regular and reliable health care to 11 million people. In Zimbabwe's Binga district alone, deaths from malaria plunged 20% thanks to the ability of motorcycles to deliver mosquito-resistant bed nets and keep health-care workers mobile. As Andrea has shown, when you keep workers mobile, you keep people alive.