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. […]
CONTINUE READINGIn 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGBicycle 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGOn 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 […]
CONTINUE READINGMay 3, 2013 CooP-Africa organises the second Friends of CooP-Africa event. From 19:30h you are very welcome at the ‘Centrum voor Jong Ondernemerschap’ in Nijmegen. This is opposite Nijmegen Central Station. Frank van Rijn, ambassador of CooP-Africa, will give a presentation on his bicycle tour along the projects of CooP-Africa in Uganda and Kenya. To […]
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