What Does Your Employer Do For You?

The Rickshaw Travels, Ltd.

So what is the big deal? Well, I will tell you the big deal.

Rickshaw is the guide transportation service that transports us to and from the airport and gets us to the places we need to go.

Mr. Deepak is the regional manager. He is originally from India. We met him when we stopped by the office with our driver, Martin, to settle up and go over our plans. Mr. Deepak offered to make contact with the businesses we would be visiting so as to alert them of our arrival. As long as we were there, we thought we would interview him, take some photos, and learn a little bit more about the company responsible for our lives. Hint: If you have ever been to Mexico and ridden in a taxi, you know what I mean.

Here is what we learned:

Fact #1: Rickshaw was formerly located in the center of Arusha in close proximity to reasonably priced restaurants for its employees.

Fact # 2: Rickshaw relocated its business to the outskirts of town.

Fact #3: The nearest restaurants for its employees to eat were in the hotels, which were far from cheap.

Fact # 4: Mr. Deepak decided it would be a good idea to plant a large fruit and vegetable garden on the new Rickshaw grounds so his employees could have affordable (60 cents a day) organic food to eat during the day, instead of going to the hotels or home for meals. One of the employees is cooking the fresh organic food for the whole crew.

Fact #5:   At the modest rate of 60 cents per day, per working employee, the garden is turning a profit, which will then be used to do more things for its employees. Mr. Deepak thought it would be nice to maybe buy a ping pong table for employee recreation during break time.

Fact # 6: Resourceful businesses can do really creative, innovative things to help their employees, which is a sure way to help improve business. Yeah, Rickshaw!

If every human on this planet thought of one little thing to make the world a better place, just image the world that we would live in.