This site describes the applications of the Lightweight Handcart to rural as well as urban transport systems in Sub-Sahara Africa; and the development, design, manufacture, dissemination and evaluation of lightweight handcarts built by carpenters using hand tools and low-cost components and materials.
It advocates for the use of handcarts as the most cost-effective and appropriate form of wheeled
transport for subsistence and smallholder farm families and the urban poor.
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