Basirika Anitah

This is Basirika Anitah from Country Side Secondary School in Iganga, Uganda. Students from several schools in Uganda and Kenya have been writing essays about the impact of a bicycle on their lives. Basirika wrote: “A bicycle is another teacher. A school without a teacher is like a home without a bicycle, because a student can’t understand without a teacher in class and even a student form very far can’t reach school earlier without a bicycle.”

More information about the Bike4School programme of CooP-Africa.

Brian the juice vendor

Brian, a young man from Kisumu, Kenia, is making his money by selling fresh fruit juices. "I used to sell the juices on foot while I was carrying a small cooler. Recently I bought a tricycle on credit at the Cycling Blue Workshop. With this pimped tricycle I now sell four times as much as before, since I can carry more juices. Because I am more mobile now I can be at strategic places at the right time." You can find him at lunch hours near the offices and when the schools are closing near the schools.

Dickens doubled his income

"Through CooP-Africa I got the opportunity to buy this tricycle for waste collection. Now I can collect double as mucht waste as before. Thanks to that also my income doubled!" Click here for more information about the Bike2Clean project in which Dickons takes part.