Bike4Work'S ARCHIVE

  • Would you like to come home with better photos after your holiday? May 26 and June 2 Reis-idee organises a workshop Travel Photography in Hilversum. This workshop costs € 60 per person of which € 6 will be donated to Bike4Work in Uganda. This fun and educational day is fully catered, including lunch and all…lees verder

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  • Ngeruka is a village in Rwanda where farmers face a mobility problem. There is food in abundance, but getting the products to the market is a challenge. That is why our partner organisation FAPDR in Rwanda has started a bicycle-on-credit project in this village. Farmers can buy a bicycle and pay for it in instalments….lees verder

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  • In February 2013, 24 bicycles new bicycles were given out to farmers in Gakenke Rwanda. Our partner organisation FAPDR in Rwanda has started with a bicycle project in Gakenke in 2009. CooP-Africa financed the bicycles for the first group of beneficiaries in this village. After this first group had paid off their bicycles, the money…lees verder

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  • Bicycle mechanics from Nyanza area in Kenya have been trained to fix the specific bicycles that are issued to health care workers under the Bike4Care programme. The first part of the training took place at the Cycling Blue Workshop in Kisumu. In the second week of February the second part of the training took place…lees verder

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  • On Sunday the 7th of April ‘Op vuur en vlam’ and ‘Fietsdiensten.nl’ organise an event around cargo cycles, called Bakfiets Treffen 2013. Venue of this event will be the ‘Cultuurspinnerij de Vasim’ in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Individuals and companies with or without carrier bicycle are more than welcome to join. The event starts at 1pm…lees verder

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  • ‘Reis-idee’, founded by experienced traveler Els Kaskens, provides independent travel advice to both the business traveler and the leisure traveler. Untill the 19th of March, Reis-idee organises almost daily winter walks through Hilversum and environment. This costs 15 euro per person, including coffee beforehand and soup afterwards. You can register by sending an email to…lees verder

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  • In Nyanza, Kenya, bicycle mechanics are trained to repair bicycles of health care workers. The bicycle mechanics in this projects are already working as mechanics, but are trained in the specific skills they need to fix the bicycles of the health care workers. This provides them with an income and at the same time benefits…lees verder

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  • Six bicycle mechanics from Nyanza area in Kenya are being trained to fix the specific bicycles that are issued to health care workers under the Bike4Care programme. With the help of CooP-Africa’s Bike4Care programme, medical workers in Africa use bicycles to visit patients at home. Health workers on a bicycle can visit more patients, reach…lees verder

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  • 4 students of Delft University of Technology have developed a series of prototypes of pedicabs. Developments include improvements in weight and local producability. The current stage is the development of charging systems with solar panels, ensuring the pedicabs to be able to ride with pedalsupport. The final stage for the students will be to develop…lees verder

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  • Jur Schuurman started in 2012 cycling a 100-cols tour. In this way he supports the Bike4Work project of CooP-Africa for small entrepreneurs in Rwanda. In 2012 Jur Schuurman has cycled 2,000 km in three weeks time and has completed the first part of the journey. In 2013 he will continue his tour and the current…lees verder

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