Brian, a young man from Kisumu, Kenia, is making his money by selling fresh fruit juices. “I used to sell the juices on foot while I was carrying a small cooler. Recently I bought a tricycle on credit at the Cycling Blue Workshop. With this pimped tricycle I now sell four times as much as…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGEvery year, Gert Verhofstede, makes a long cycling tour of 6 weeks. “Won’t you sell your bike? We will put together with the whole village!” was one of the proposals he heard during one of his bicycle tours. By traveling by bicycle, he realized that a bicycle really could mean a way out of poverty….lees verder
CONTINUE READINGKarin Groot currently strengthens the Kenyan organisation Bikeventures in the further development of bicycle tours, rentals and cycling events. Karin has a background in marketing, and that is exactly what her contribution will be: marketing the activities of Bikeventures. Her work includes developing a tourist road map of the city, the development of the tours…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGTwo groups of each 15 farmers have been trained in bicycle maintenance and basic repair by our local partner organisation Orude. The groups are located in Bugiri district in Uganda. The farmers are going to use a bicycle to access better markets. They are currently selling their products on nearby markets. The main trading centre…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGIn 2007 CooP-Africa started a bicycle project in Burkina Faso. Our partner organization AVO gives bicycles on credit. The bicycles are mainly used by women to make money, for example by selling peanuts, donuts and local-grown products at markets and in surrounding villages. The women pay the bicycle in installments. The payments allow AVO to…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGThe organisation BSPW started in 1990 as a small skill-training workshop at the Shores of Lake Victoria. In the last decennia it has grown to a large workshop which not only sells, repairs and modifies bicycles but also engages in wood and metal work. The workshop is currently expanding with a second building. CooP-Africa is supporting…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGIn one of the informal settlements of Kisumu, Kenya CooP-Africa is developing a multi-functional centre: The Green Hub. The Green Hub will produce between 500 to 1000 bicycles annualy in serial production. As well as custom-made bicycles and bicycle trailers like bicycle ambulances, tricycles and serveral bicycle trailers. Furthermore the Green Hub will offer shared…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGFollowing the developments of a multi-functional centre in Kisumu (Kenya), The Green Hub, from 2015 CooP-Africa will start working on the development of The Green Hub in Jinja, Uganda. The Green Hub Jinja will produce between 500 to 1000 bicycles annualy in serial production. As well as custom-made bicycles and bicycle trailers like bicycle ambulances,…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGThis Bike4Work project aims at improving economic outcomes of farmers in Nyanza Province Kenya by improving access to bicycles to solve their transport challenges. A majority of peasant farmers in Western Kenya do not have reliable means of transport to enable them to access markets for inputs and to sell off their produce. Poor roads…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGCooP-Africa’s partner organisation in Uganda ORUDE has made 70 bicycles available to 6 Saccos in Eastern Uganda. Via the Saccos (Saving and Credit Cooperations) the bicycles are to be given to rural entrepreneurs on a creditscheme programme in 2012. In July 2012 these bicycles were distributed to the different Saccos in Jinja and Bugiri: Buyengo,…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGDoneer nu makkelijk en snel aan de fietsprojecten van Cycling out of Poverty
