Since April of this year, bicycle shop Profile Roel Peerenboom is supporting a bicycle project of Cycling out of Poverty in Uganda. The mayor of Wageningen launched the campaign. People who buy a bicycle at Peerenboom are invited to give a voluntary donation to Cycling out of Poverty. Peerenboom is contributing another 500 euros. He…lees verder
CONTINUE READING{youtube}S6HYTWB3opI|300|225{/youtube} Nick Abreu, a student from Harvard University, did research on how a bicycle can make a difference in accessing health care. Diseases such as malaria are very common in Africa, even though medicines and preventive measures such as mosquito nets are available. People literally just don’t have access to these. Nick analysed that there…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGCycling out of Poverty’s partner organisation in Burkina Faso (AVO) started the construction of a bicycle workshop. In this workshop, bicycles will be sold and repaired. The women in AVO’s bicycle-on-credit projects will be trained in basic bicycle maintenance and repair in this workshop. The workshop will be finalised in the coming months.
CONTINUE READINGRecently the collegues from Marketing & Products of the Fortis Bank Netherlands and ABN AMRO merged into the head office of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. To get to know each other better, a cycling competition was set up: “Tour de Chance”. During 3 days, 157 kilometres were covered, some of which in record time. With…lees verder
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