Women Commercial Drivers Association of Kenya

01/06/2026

🇰🇪 MADARAKA DAY 2026 🇰🇪

Madaraka is about the power to shape our own future.

Every day, women commercial drivers exercise that power on Kenya's roads. We transport workers to their jobs, children to school, patients to hospitals, goods to markets and families to places of opportunity. We are part of the movement that keeps this country alive.

As we celebrate Madaraka Day, we honour the women who have claimed space in industries where they were once unseen, the women who have turned steering wheels into tools of economic empowerment, and the women who continue to organise, lead and build collective power.

Happy Madaraka Day from Women Driving Change.

25/05/2026

Do you know that the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) takes place in Geneva, Switzerland, from June 1 to June 12, 2026? The annual event gathers government, employer, and worker delegates from 187 member states to debate and adopt international labour standards.

The core 2026 themes center on decent work in the platform economy, advancing gender equality, and social dialogue and tripartism. For the platform economy, there will be a second standard-setting discussion to establish international protections for digital platform workers and regulate algorithmic management.

On gender equality, there is a general discussion centered on building a transformative agenda for gender equality in the world of work and in social dialogue & tripartism, there will be a continuation of a recurrent discussion focused on the role of social dialogue in shaping inclusive and sustainable policies.

As workers, we demand recognition of platform work as real work; fair pay that reflects the real cost of work; protection from unfair deactivation and algorithmic punishment; freedom to organise and bargain collectively; gender-responsive safety and dignity at work; recognition of tools of trade; and access to social protection.

Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing - WIEGO, Arsenal Ministry of Energy, Kenya Online Cab Drivers Network KE Digital Boda Driver And Deliveries Association Kenya Union of Gig Workers - KUGWO, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India State House Kenya, وزارة العمل والشؤون الاجتماعية The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Motorists Association of Kenya

25/05/2026

Protect our children

Faith Odhiambo
Our children are being stolen. Between Jan 2025 and March 2026, Kenya recorded 10,581 child protection cases,1,952 abductions, and 173 trafficking cases. That is 23 children a day.

Last week in Githurai, a 2-year-old was kidnapped by a teenager sent to steal a child for a phone. In Juja, residents shut down the Thika Superhighway after 4 children vanished in two weeks. In Central Kenya, 372 violence-against-children incidents in under a year. This is a national emergency.

The Penal Code provides for life imprisonment for kidnappers. I want to see DCI and DPP match that seriousness with urgent investigations and full prosecutions, not just press releases.

To every Kenyan, watch the children around you. Speak up and report because if we do not protect our children, we have failed at the most fundamental duty of a society. Our children are not a footnote. They are our future.

23/05/2026

Our Association, Women Commercial Drivers Association of Kenya, has once again been featured in this article on the realities facing drivers in Kenya’s e-hailing and transport sector.

Bolt entered the Kenyan market as a disruptor and, for many drivers, it initially looked like a beacon of hope. It opened up access to work, connected drivers to passengers, and changed how urban mobility operates in Kenya.

The concern is that the same model that made rides affordable has also placed a heavy burden on the worker.

Drivers are carrying the cost of fuel, vehicle maintenance, insurance, loan repayments, data, safety risks, long working hours, and unstable earnings. Many are investing heavily in the tools of trade, yet the pricing models do not reflect the real cost of doing this work in Kenya today.

For women drivers, the burden is even heavier. Safety, harassment, unpaid care work, night operations, and lack of gender-responsive support systems affect how women enter, remain, and earn in this sector.

Innovation cannot be celebrated only through cheap fares and market growth. It must also be measured by whether the workers powering that innovation can live, work, organise, and earn with dignity.

As WCDA-K, we continue to stand with drivers, riders, and platform workers calling for fair pricing, safer working conditions, recognition of tools of trade, and meaningful worker voice in the decisions that shape this sector.

Women driving change. Please read the article here.

While acknowledging Bolt's 6% increase, the WCDA-K, however, argued that it wasn't enough to help drivers earn a decent income

19/05/2026

Please read this article we are featured in by Ejike Kanife, stating boir position as women commercial drivers.

E-hailing drivers in Kenya have called off a strike over the price of petrol and its impact on…

19/05/2026

The Women Commercial Drivers Association of Kenya, WCDA-K, thanks all women commercial drivers and transport workers who participated in and supported the transport sector strike.

We recognise the courage, discipline and solidarity shown by drivers who downed their tools to demand fair fuel prices, safe rates, dignity at work and protection for the people who keep Kenya moving.

The strike has now been called off as engagements continue. We therefore encourage our members to resume work safely, remain vigilant on the roads, protect their vehicles and assets, and continue documenting the real cost of driving.

For WCDA-K, this struggle is not over. Fuel prices, low fares, high maintenance costs, platform commissions, safety risks, maternity protection, social protection and recognition of our tools of trade remain urgent issues for women commercial drivers.

Until the next call to action, we remain organised, alert and united.

Women Driving Change.
WCDA-K

19/05/2026

Dear Ministry of Energy, Kenya; Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Kenya. Motorists Association of Kenya, the cost of living has overtaken our earning power. We deserve fair earnings and the right to refrain from transferring high costs to our customers.

We have nothing to take home to our children and cannot sustain this pain! Spare parts are unaffordable; our loaners are on our necks.

If we go out to the streets, you will shoot us, adding the extra layer of insecurity to our already insecure lives.

How are we protected during pregnancy and where do we learn to raise our children?

We decry this unfairness and are on strike alongside our colleagues in commercial driving.
LOWER FUEL PRICES,
LOWER THE COST OF LIVING

18/05/2026

We reject your terms Ministry of Energy, Kenya and EPRA.

18/05/2026