Public comprehensive school Driemark in Winterswijk the Netherlands, is organising a number of activities to raise funds for a CYCLE2SCHOOL project in Kenya. You can support their activities by buy a Peanutbar. The Peanutbar is a birdhouse, where birds can eat from a jar of peanut butter. A perfect way to help the birds in […]
CONTINUE READINGBSPW in Uganda started a bicycle-on-credit project for small entrepreneurs in Baitambogwe. The bicycles are given out via a Sacco, an informal bank providing micro credit facilities to low income communities. Participants in the project tell us that they use the bicycle to fetch water and food for their animals (some engage in poultry rearing, […]
CONTINUE READINGOur partner organisations La Nouvelle Vie has started a bicycle-on-credit project in the villages of Ngeruka and Gakenke in 2009. A video about Ngeruka can be seen here, and about Gakenke here. By the end of 2009 31 bicycles were given out to members of a Cooperative named iMBARAGA in Ngeruka, and Cooperative named DUFASHANYE […]
CONTINUE READINGIn May of this year, Hope Alive Uganda (HAU) opened a bicycle shop in Kisozi Uganda with support from Cycling out of Poverty. This shop offers spare parts for various types of bicycles. Also, in front of the shop, bicycles are repaired. Tyres are fixed, carriers repaired, etc. Since it is one of the few […]
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