This is Hakizimana Jean de Dieu. He is 20 years old and lives in Ngeruka, Rwanda. He is one of the people who obtained a bicycle on credit three years ago from our partner organszation in Rwanda. In the past three years, the bicycle has enabled him to earn more money. He uses it in […]
CONTINUE READINGA new project started in Kisum Kenya: Bike2rism. The bicycle is a perfect means of sightseeing Kenya’s third largest city. The city roads are crowded with thousands of bicycle taxi operators called boda boda riders. In this project, tourists are given the opportunity to explore Kisumu by bicycle. Bicycle tours are made available, both as passenger […]
CONTINUE READINGOn the 29th of September 2011 the Italian group La Stazione delle Biciclette organised an amazing bicycle event. With 25 teams of bicycle mechanics, they refurbished 23 second hand bicycles and sold them in a public auction. With this event, they raised funds for the Cycling out of Poverty project of the bicycle workshop in […]
CONTINUE READINGSince 2006, women in Burkina Faso are able to aquire a bicycle-on-credit via our partner organisation AVO. Hundreds of women have benefited from this programme. The bicycle enables them to generate more income for their family. Most women are small entrepreneurs and are selling their products on the market: from ground nuts, to local beer […]
CONTINUE READING“Through CooP-Africa I got the opportunity to buy this tricycle for waste collection. Now I can collect double as mucht waste as before. Thanks to that also my income doubled!” Click here for more information about the Bike2Clean project in which Dickons takes part.
CONTINUE READING90 health care workers have finished a 6-day training in community health strategies of the Kenyan government. They are now qualified health care providers. With their bicycles they are providing door-to-door service to people in need. The training ended with a ceremony in which the health care workers were awarded with a certificate. The next […]
CONTINUE READINGAs part of the bike2clean programme in Uganda, a start has been made with the production of tricycles. The tricycles will be used for garbage collection, and are produced in the workshop of our partner organisation BSPW. Arjen Reinders, the volunteer who earlier this year started the tricycle production in Kenya, coached and trained the […]
CONTINUE READINGThe 10 bicycle friends from “cycling4cyclists” have completed their bicycle tour from Lausanne to Florence. They spent around 42 hours on the bicycle, with an average speed of almost 23 km/h. Via the high mountains of the Alps and the Apennines. With their tour, they managed to raise more funds than they aimed for: the […]
CONTINUE READINGIn 25 days, Gea van Veen cycled 2,295 kilometres on a world tour through the Netherlands. On one of the days she for instance cycled through a record number of countries: first past the Eifel tower in Drachten, to Egypt, to Moscow and Petersburg, and finally to America and East-India. With her tour, she raised […]
CONTINUE READINGDespite the bad weather, about 80 cyclists took part in the tour “to Nijmegen LangsZijwegen” (the Netherlands) on Sunday, June 19, 2011. At the start between 8 and 10 am it was dry, but later on there was some rain and a fair wind. Along the way a snack was handed out at ‘t Veerhuis […]
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