‘Reis-idee’, founded by experienced traveler Els Kaskens, provides independent travel advice to both the business traveler and the leisure traveler. Untill the 19th of March, Reis-idee organises almost daily winter walks through Hilversum and environment. This costs 15 euro per person, including coffee beforehand and soup afterwards. You can register by sending an email to […]
CONTINUE READINGAt the ‘Fiets- en Wandelbeurs 2013’ CooP Africa, Cycling out of Poverty, was represented with a stand. During the fair visitors were asked to make their bicycle tour a sponsor bicycle tour, to support the projects of CooP-Africa. The enthusiastic volunteers inspired many visitors. Frank van Rijn, ambassador, mentioned CooP-Africa in his lectures and afterwards […]
CONTINUE READINGIn Nyanza, Kenya, bicycle mechanics are trained to repair bicycles of health care workers. The bicycle mechanics in this projects are already working as mechanics, but are trained in the specific skills they need to fix the bicycles of the health care workers. This provides them with an income and at the same time benefits […]
CONTINUE READINGSix bicycle mechanics from Nyanza area in Kenya are being trained to fix the specific bicycles that are issued to health care workers under the Bike4Care programme. With the help of CooP-Africa’s Bike4Care programme, medical workers in Africa use bicycles to visit patients at home. Health workers on a bicycle can visit more patients, reach […]
CONTINUE READINGThe academic year in Kenya has started. The CooP-Africa Bike4School coordinator in Kenya, Daniel, is visiting schools and introducing the Bike4School programme in schools. Last week he visited Wachara Mixed Secondary school in Nyahera, where he spoke to 200 students after classes before they were going for games. Many students and teachers are interested in […]
CONTINUE READINGThis 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 […]
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