Come to Park Lepelenburg in Utrecht next Sunday, June 17th, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. to visit Chill ‘em for Africa! You can come along to chill, to make a donation and / or to follow a workshop. The proceeds go to CooP-Africa. There is music, a lounge area, activities, workshops and a good […]
CONTINUE READINGThe third and final group of bicycle mechanics in the Bike4Care project was trained early June. The need for professional mechanics in Kumi becomes apparent from an example of local practice regarding the use of spokes. In this area, local mechanics are used to assemble the rear wheel exactly the same way a front wheel […]
CONTINUE READINGNext Saturday, 54 participants of 19 companies will try to raise money for the Bike4Care programme of CooP-Africa by climbing Mount Stelvio in Italy. This is an initiative of Across, a full service consultancy firm, based in Belgium. Their ‘A-team and friends’ will climb the Stelvio or Cancano / Bormio 2000 Saturday morning. A group […]
CONTINUE READINGApac is the second district in Uganda where youngsters have been trained to be bicycle mechanics. They worked with a bicycle mechanic handbook developed for the occasion. The trainings were held in the villages Nambiyeso and Chegere, were resp. 6 and 5 mechanics successfully completed the course. The mechanics are now able and equipped to […]
CONTINUE READINGThis is Wim Weeseman, 62 years and living Groningen. He has recently stopped working and likes to ride his bicycle. In transition to a life with other activities he will cycle the North Sea Tour counterclockwise. This will take him about 3 months. He will stay in a tent and in bad weather he seeks […]
CONTINUE READINGA group of bicycle mechanics has been trained in Nakapiripirit district, north western Uganda. In the second week of May, two groups of enthusiastic people went through an intensive three-day training course in two separate villages. In each of the villages Lorengedwat and Moruita five people were trained. They learned most of the aspects involved […]
CONTINUE READINGIn the last couple of months the winning design of the African Bicycle Design Contest has been produced by the bicycle workshop in Kisumu, Kenya. Two different variants have been made. At this moment 40 users take part in a user survey in order to get a view on experiences with the trailers. Among others […]
CONTINUE READINGA ranger of National Park ‘De Hoge Veluwe’ in the Netherlands will make a documentary about the “white bicycles” in Africa. He recently visited Kenya to explore this idea and to picture the cyclists. In partnership with KLM, CooP-Africa reuses the white bicycles of the National Park ‘De Hoge Veluwe’ in Kenya. This is a […]
CONTINUE READINGYesterday evening CooP-Africa organised, together with students of the Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen, a very successful Friends of Coop Africa Event. After looking back to 5 years of CooP Africa, Cycling out of Poverty, we focused on the new logo and communication materials. The students had made a CooP-Africa movie and online game. The participants could […]
CONTINUE READINGWith support from the Bernard van Leer foundation, 400 health care workers in 3 rural provinces of Uganda are going to be equipped with bicycles. This phase was planned for May, June and July, but on request of the districts this phase was pushed forward to deliver the bicycles to all districts in April. Thanks […]
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