A group of young students have completed a good long bicycle tour for Cycling out of Poverty. In four weeks time they cycled from the Netherlands to Istanbul, covering more than 2,500 km. With this tour, they managed to raise almost 4,000 euros for a cycle-to-school project in Uganda. The cyclists appreciated the helpful and hospitable […]
CONTINUE READING90 health care workers have finished a 6-day training in community health strategies of the Kenyan government. They are now qualified health care providers. With their bicycles they are providing door-to-door service to people in need. The training ended with a ceremony in which the health care workers were awarded with a certificate. The next […]
CONTINUE READINGAs part of the bike2clean programme in Uganda, a start has been made with the production of tricycles. The tricycles will be used for garbage collection, and are produced in the workshop of our partner organisation BSPW. Arjen Reinders, the volunteer who earlier this year started the tricycle production in Kenya, coached and trained the […]
CONTINUE READINGHalf of the winning ABDC team, travelled to Kenya to locally manufacture the prototype of the bicycle trailer. The team won the African Bicycle Design Contest which was held via www.wiki-bike.com. Brazilian Juliano Papalardo (who submitted the original idea for the trailer) and 2 students of the Delft University of Technology Rianne Houba and Jan […]
CONTINUE READINGThe 10 bicycle friends from “cycling4cyclists” have completed their bicycle tour from Lausanne to Florence. They spent around 42 hours on the bicycle, with an average speed of almost 23 km/h. Via the high mountains of the Alps and the Apennines. With their tour, they managed to raise more funds than they aimed for: the […]
CONTINUE READINGOn 29th of July, 90 health workers started using bicycles and bicycle ambulances in Nyanza province Kenya. The health workers are providing home based care on a number of topics, such as awareness, counceling and care on for instance TBC, HIV/AIDS, nutrician. The day of the ceremony was filled with drama, speaches, music and dance. […]
CONTINUE READINGIn 25 days, Gea van Veen cycled 2,295 kilometres on a world tour through the Netherlands. On one of the days she for instance cycled through a record number of countries: first past the Eifel tower in Drachten, to Egypt, to Moscow and Petersburg, and finally to America and East-India. With her tour, she raised […]
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