The 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGOnly with your support CooP-Africa, Cycling out of Poverty, can help entrepreneurs, students and health workers in Africa with bicycles. Become Friend of CooP-Africa and enjoy the advantages. You will get: satisfaction, you support small entrepreneurs, students and health workers in Africa with bicycles, an invitation and free entrance to the annual CooP-Africa event, 6 […]
CONTINUE READINGIn 2010 Roel Peerenboom started supporting Bike4School projects of CooP-Africa through his Profile Bicycle shop in Wageningen. People who buy a bicycle in his shop get the opportunity to contribute to a bicycle for students in Africa. Roel Peerenboom explains with enthusiasm his initiative and corporate responsibility. What did you make to start supporting CooP-Africa? […]
CONTINUE READINGThis month students from a school in Ruiru (nearby Nairobi, Kenya) 50 students will get a bicycle on credit which they can pay for in installments. The students (and their parents/guardians) will be trained in basic bicycle maintenance and saving & credit. Click here for more information about the Bike4School project in Ruiru, Kenia.
CONTINUE READINGFietsen zijn veruit de belangrijkste vervoermiddelen in Oeganda. Slechts 2% van de gezinnen heeft een motor of auto, terwijl 34% van de gezinnen een fiets heeft. Fietsen zijn vooral populair omdat ze betaalbaar zijn (een auto is onbetaalbaar), en veelzijdig in gebruik zijn (je bepaalt zelf het tijdstip, wat je meeneemt en wie hem gebruikt). […]
CONTINUE READINGIn October 2011 the first classes of the ‘Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen’ (SGN) raised 1,475 euro for the Bike4School project of Coop-Africa in Uganda. (Click here for more info about the project.) This was the 12th time the SGN organized a charity run in the beautiful ‘Kronenburgerpark’ in Nijmegen. The students ran for 30 minutes rounds […]
CONTINUE READINGAre you (or your child) attending a primary or secondary school in the Netherlands? Is this school willing to organise or organising a fund raising activity? Or are you a teacher in a school and would you like to organise an activity for CooP-Africa? CooP-Africa would be glad to support to make the activity a […]
CONTINUE READINGMany Africans don’t have enough money to buy a bicycle in one go, but do have a vision on how they can use a bicycle to improve their livelihood. These people (and especially women are encouraged to participate) can apply for a bicycle on credit via one of our partner organisations. For farmers, traders, bicycle […]
CONTINUE READINGThe main objective of this project is to bridge the distance gaps for needy secondary school students and teachers in selected schools in Iganga District, for social transformation and development. They pay off the bicycle in installments and use the bicycle to cycle to go to school. • Target group: secondary school students • Period: […]
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