Monthly Archives: March 2010

  • {youtube}9C3J247-ZQQ|300|225{/youtube} In the village Nariou in Burkina Faso, over 200 women have received a bicycle-on-credit via our partner organisation AVO in recent years. The video gives an impression of how these women use the bicycle and what the bicycle means to them in their daily life. The projects of AVO in Burkina Faso can be […]

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  • {youtube}y0cSKTJxW3E|300|225{/youtube} 3 years ago, our partner organisation FABIO give out the first Cycling out of Poverty bicycles-on-credit in Katakwi Uganda. Now, 3 years later, we are visiting the women who received a bicycle via this programme. A number of bicycles is not in use any more, due to the wear and tear, and some are […]

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  • {youtube}Lm2NohJwODk|300|225{/youtube} Luuk Eickmans is working part time for Cycling out of Poverty in 2010 and 2011, funded by the Vodafone Foundation, as part of the World of Difference programme. In March Luuk visited Ghana to explore possibilities for public private partnerships in Africa. He spoke with Magnus Quarshie of the Centre for Cycling Expertise in […]

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  • {youtube}q5Y50RhN3KU|300|225{/youtube} One of Cycling out of Poverty’s longest relationship is with our partner organisation AVO in Burkina Faso. On international women’s day 8th of March 2010, Esther Yameogo of AVO received a medal from the president of Burkina Faso for the achievements of AVO in giving women a chance to cycle out of poverty. The […]

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  • On March 11, bands from different governmental organisations in Amsterdam played in “the Melkweg” in the Dutch capital. It was a competition which not only saw a winning band, but also winning charities, since the bands raised funds for different charity organisations. DIVV participated with their own band and raised 402 euros (exclusive of costs […]

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  •  In September 2007 and January 2008 Cycling out of Poverty produced a newspaper about her activities: the Good News Paper. Now, a third edition of this newspaper is available (only in Dutch!). This Good News Paper gives you an update on the bicycle projects in Africa for the different target groups. This paper is made […]

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  • {youtube}wZYYpgQrHIc|300|225{/youtube} Cycling out of Poverty is currently fund raising for a new bicycle project in Uganda. Our partner organisation BSPW is active in a number of villages in Jinja and Mayuge district on assessing with the communities which skills they want to enhance to be able to alliviate themselves and their community from poverty. BSPW […]

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  • {youtube}hvDbmV85Hws|300|225{/youtube} At the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 our ambassador Frank van Rijn cycled from Cairo to Nairobi. During his tour he visited some of the bicycle projects of Cycling out of Povety in Kenya and Uganda. Now he is back in the Netherlands and made an inspiring presentation about one of […]

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  • {youtube}ZqjDNpdN9zE|300|225{/youtube} On 27th and 28th of February Cycling out of Poverty was present at the Cycling and walikg fair in the RAI in Amsterdam. Approximately 15,000 people have visited the fair. Besides promoting Cycling out of Poverty and inform the vistors about Cycling out of Poverty we raffled a real Black Mambda bike with boda-boda […]

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