{youtube}1FqLte3q-wg|300|225{/youtube} Cycling out of Poverty invites you to send in ideas for sustainable bicycle designs for Africa. Bicycles made from bamboo, recycled plastic, or, designs for bicycle ambulances, bicycle carts, etc. Based upon a needs assessment on the type of bicycles needed in Africa, everyone is invited to send in photo’s and designs in a […]
CONTINUE READING{youtube}xxdC06jaHKo|300|225{/youtube} On Saturday 13th of February the bicycle workshop in Kisumu Kenya was officially opened. The boda boda bicycle taxi community put in a lot of work for 2 weeks in renovating the place, just in time for the pre-launch. The same day global cyclist and ambassador of Cycling out of Poverty Frank van Rijn […]
CONTINUE READINGAmbassador Frank van Rijn visits a number of projects of Cycling out of Poverty, by bicycle. Last week he was in Katakwi (Uganda) and this week in Butagaya (Uganda). The route from Katakwi to Butagaya was typical African. In Katakwi he discussed with local people the best route to Butagaya, and they told him that […]
CONTINUE READINGIn December 2009 students of the Citadel College in Lent chose Cycling out of Poverty as charity for which they were going to raise funds. Due to the heavy snow on the 22nd of December, the sponsor event was postponed to Wednesday 3rd of February. On this day, the students went to the centre of […]
CONTINUE READINGIn 2009 the first biycle-on-credit project in Rwanda started, in a place called Ngeruka. The plan is that the 25 beneficiaries pay their last installment at the end of this month. Our partner organisation La Nouvelle Vie mentions that up until now all payments have been made in time and that also the last payment […]
CONTINUE READINGFrank van Rijn, the global cyclist from the Netherlands well-known for his books and presentations on his adventurous cycling tours, cycles in his role as ambassador of Cycling out of Poverty to some of the bicycle projects in Uganda and Kenya. From his start in Nairobi things could only get better. The traffic was awfully […]
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