Designing a bicycle for students in Africa, requires a lot of user research. Eline Meesters, student of Delft University of Technology, is now in Uganda to design a bicycle frame that meets the needs of students and can be produced locally in the workshops of CooP-Africa. Next year we want to start the first production….lees verder
Improving access to health care is the aim of our programme Bike4Care. This involves distributing bicycles to community health workers. But if they are on an island and the only health centre is on the mainland… What do you do? We provide a boat. It improves access to health care and generates income for the…lees verder
Bicycle repair and fitting training in Nakapiripirit, Uganda. Youths are being trained to assemble and repair bicycles in a very rural and isolated region. A bicycle really makes a difference in this area but it is essential the bicycles keep on running. So that’s where they come in. For more information on this project, go…lees verder
Another bicycle trailer from the bicycle workshop in Kisumu Kenya. Support the expansion of the workshop so we can produce more of these efficient, affordable and innovative means of transport. Support the development of the bicycle workshop in Kenya, under the Bike4Work projects.
Pedicabs lined up to go on transport to Kisumu and Jinja. In 2014 the first Pedi-Teksis will be riding in Kisumu, Kenya and Jinja, Uganda. For more information about this project read about the design phase of the pedicab as part of the African Bicycle Design, and the implementation phase of the pedicab, as part…lees verder
Students of Liemers College in Zevenaar (the Netherlands) have volunteered in Kisumu, Kenya. They were trained on assembling bicycles and this is the result. Happy students, assembled bicycles and most importantly happy students in Kenya who are going to ride these bicycles in the Bike4School programme. The students of Liemers College in Zevenaar also supported…lees verder
Sjoukje and Charles from the Netherlands rode with their bicycle from Assen (the Netherlands) all the way to Gibraltar. This trip of more than 3900 km raised euro 4,000 for the bicycle interventions of CooP-Africa. Thank you Sjoukje and Charles and all friends, family and colleagues who made this fundraising trip a success. Would you…lees verder
New developments in Kisumu Kenya. The Cycling Blue Workshop is getting an upgrade to give space to our staff of CooP-Kenya and to improve and increase on our bicycle production. The perimeter wall is about to be completed. By May 2014 we hope to have completed the work. Your support is very much appreciated. Support…lees verder
Rotary Club Bennekom raised 10,000 euros during the four-day-bicycle tour in Ede (the Netherlands). This donation to CooP-Africa is a step forward in realising en expansion and upgrading of the Cycling Blue Workshop in Kisumu Kenya to a multifuncional centre for bicycle production.For more information about this project, go to the bicycle workshop in Kenya,…lees verder
Some time ago, CooP-Africa changed to a new house style. The final part of the change to the new house style is the website. The new logo is colourful and shows motion. The website in the new house style is bursting of energy. We would like to hear what you think of the new house…lees verder
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