Nabugabo Triathlon has made a donation of 2 bicycles this year as part of their annual sporting event at Nabugabo Lake in Uganda. These 2 boys (Jonathan and Joel) are very happy with the bikes. They received the Bike4School bicycles from Nabugabo Triathlon this week. Now they can go to school faster and save about […]
CONTINUE READING →Soon we want to equip 26 palliative care providers of Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja with a bicycle, as part of our Bike4Care programme in Uganda, in which we will provide a total of 50 health volunteers and care providers with a bicycle in 2020. These healthcare providers from Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja particularly […]
CONTINUE READING →John Owino Owiti (58) in Kisumu, Kenya makes his living buying and selling bread. From now on he has a cargo bike, manufactured in our Green Hub Workshop, to bring the bread to his customers! He can now transport more bread, reach more customers, and make more money. #bike4work #CooPKenya #abikemakesthedifference #bread #postedwithpermission #sustainableliving #entrepreneurship […]
CONTINUE READING →Most farmers in Africa are seasonal (rain-fed) farmers and depend heavily on the rain seasons. But these farmers are now facing a change in rainfalls as a result of climate change. Seasons are not the same anymore. These changes express themselves in droughts as well as in heavy rains and storms and have huge implications […]
CONTINUE READING →Yesterday, Cycling out of Poverty Uganda Foundation donated a bicycle ambulance in our Bike4Care programme to Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja in Uganda. This bicycle ambulance will help their Village Health Team members in transporting patients to the nearest health centers to improve the provision of palliative care and quality of life for all people […]
CONTINUE READING →Today it’s International Womens Day. If you would ask Cycling out of Poverty on how you can help to forge a more gender-balanced world then we would say: equip school girls in Africa with a bicycle for better, safer and more equal access to education. This way preparing them for a better future. #Bike4School Why? Check this take […]
CONTINUE READING →Benter Akinyi is a 38 year old Community Health Volunteer (CHV) in Kowuor Village Ahero Town, Kenya. She joined CHV service because her community had a lot of problem with hygiene, sanitation and unskilled deliveries problems. She wanted to play a role in combating these issues and help reduce maternal and child mortality in her […]
CONTINUE READING →The Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) are 17 goals set by 193 countries of the United Nations, for a better world in 2030. The bicycle / cycling contributes to the realisation of 14 of these 17 goals. In this series “A bike delivers on the Global Goals”, Cycling out of Poverty Foundation will show how […]
CONTINUE READING →Ann Awino is quite a calm and collected 30 year old woman. She is married with three boys, the eldest in class seven and youngest in kindergarten. Her husband is an army officer with the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF). She is quite an enterprising woman. She tells me that she sells fabrics, bags and shoes […]
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