Bicycle mechanics from Nyanza area in Kenya have been trained to fix the specific bicycles that are issued to health care workers under the Bike4Care programme. The first part of the training took place at the Cycling Blue Workshop in Kisumu. In the second week of February the second part of the training took place […]
CONTINUE READINGOn Sunday the 7th of April ‘Op vuur en vlam’ and ‘Fietsdiensten.nl’ organise an event around cargo cycles, called Bakfiets Treffen 2013. Venue of this event will be the ‘Cultuurspinnerij de Vasim’ in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Individuals and companies with or without carrier bicycle are more than welcome to join. The event starts at 1pm […]
CONTINUE READING‘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 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 READING4 students of Delft University of Technology have developed a series of prototypes of pedicabs. Developments include improvements in weight and local producability. The current stage is the development of charging systems with solar panels, ensuring the pedicabs to be able to ride with pedalsupport. The final stage for the students will be to develop […]
CONTINUE READINGJur Schuurman started in 2012 cycling a 100-cols tour. In this way he supports the Bike4Work project of CooP-Africa for small entrepreneurs in Rwanda. In 2012 Jur Schuurman has cycled 2,000 km in three weeks time and has completed the first part of the journey. In 2013 he will continue his tour and the current […]
CONTINUE READINGIn one of the offices of our partner organization in Uganda a burglary has occurred just before Christmas. Two bicycles and some money has been stolen, as well as the steel windows and doors of the office. Unfortunately every year at Christmas time the number of burglaries in Uganda is high, because many people are […]
CONTINUE READINGUnder the Bike4Work programme, CooP-Africa is supporting entrepreneurs who make a living on bicycle and bicycle related things. One of these entrepreneurs is Moses. He makes Boda Boda seats. Boda Boda seats are cushions that can be mounted on the carrier of a bicycle, to comfortably carry a passenger on a bicycle. These Boda Boda […]
CONTINUE READINGAt the start of this year, 60 bicycles were given out to 2 groups of farmers in Gakomeye, Rwanda. Now, almost a year later, the farmers are still using the bicycles intensively. In this area in the East of Rwanda, drought had reduced the crops, but when the rains started again, the farmers worked from […]
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