Slowly by slowly tourists are getting to know bicycle tourism. CooP-Africa has been supporting the establishment of bicycle tourism in Kisumu Kenya by Bikeventures. By renting out bicycles, organising events and tours, Bikeventures is providing work and income to office staff and tour guides. While at the same time, the use of bicycle is being […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Bike4Work group in Bugiri, Uganda, has been awarded bicycles on credit in July. The bicycles are being paid off very well. The members of the group emphasise how the bicycles have enriched their lives. Most participants are farmers, particularly women. They use the bicycle to cycle to their plot, to transport crops to the […]
CONTINUE READINGGert Verhofstede cycled through Uganda for four weeks, to support the Bike2Clean project of CooP-Africa in Uganda. He collected over 1000 euro, and made a folding bike available to one of the donors. Last week the bicycle raffle was organised and Gert handed the folding bike to the winners: Wilfried and Krista Caluwé from Sint-Gillis-Waas, […]
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 READING{youtube}xDFsi4cYvv4|300|225{/youtube} In the Western part of Kenya you see many bicycle taxis called “boda boda”. These boda boda riders use regular bicycles, with a cushion on the carrier to passengers to sit on. These boda boda seats are now also available in the Netherlands. The seats are sold by Return to Sender. Return to Sender […]
CONTINUE READINGUnder the Bike4Work programme, entrepreneurs can get access to a bicycle on credit via 9 Saving and Credit Cooperations (Saccos) in Eastern Uganda. An interested member of a Sacco pays an initial deposit of 50% of the cost of the bicycle, a bicycle is handed over to them and the balance is paid in instalments […]
CONTINUE READINGCooP-Africa is supporting Bikeventures in setting up bicycle tourism in Kisumu Kenya. Bikeventures wants to give its customers a city map as they make a bicycle tour in and around Kisumu, Kenya. CooP-Africa is looking for creative designers who are willing to make this city map. For more information about the task: http://www.1procentclub.nl/doen/task-details?id=362 Interested? Contact us by […]
CONTINUE READINGBrian, a young man from Kisumu, Kenia, is making his money by selling fresh fruit juices. “I used to sell the juices on foot while I was carrying a small cooler. Recently I bought a tricycle on credit at the Cycling Blue Workshop. With this pimped tricycle I now sell four times as much as […]
CONTINUE READINGEvery year, Gert Verhofstede, makes a long cycling tour of 6 weeks. “Won’t you sell your bike? We will put together with the whole village!” was one of the proposals he heard during one of his bicycle tours. By traveling by bicycle, he realized that a bicycle really could mean a way out of poverty. […]
CONTINUE READINGKarin Groot currently strengthens the Kenyan organisation Bikeventures in the further development of bicycle tours, rentals and cycling events. Karin has a background in marketing, and that is exactly what her contribution will be: marketing the activities of Bikeventures. Her work includes developing a tourist road map of the city, the development of the tours […]
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