Bike4School'S ARCHIVE

  • This programme in Ruiru is aiming to improve the socio-economic and academic position of students by providing safe and environmentally friendly access to school. Due to distances students often have to fall back on public transport which costs them € 0.50 to € 1.00 per day. In this programme they can pay back a bicycle […]

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  • Access to education has everything to do with the way students travel from home to school. Many African children walk to school, because of which they reach school tired, making it hard to concentrate during class. Also, the time-consuming walk to school is making it difficult for the children to combine the domestic tasks with […]

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  • Every day, school children in Africa cover long distances to school. And because most children also have to do some domestic tasks (such as fetching water or fire wood), the time they spent walking to school every day influencing their performance. Children who face mobility constraints in accessing school can apply for a bicycle on […]

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  • This Bike4School project gives students in and around Kisozi the chance to buy a bicycle on credit. Many students have to come from far and need to go to school on foot.  Because of the long distance and other tasks at home, those students often miss out on education because they come late at school.  […]

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  • Innovam supports CooP-Africa in developing training material and organising fund raising activities. www.innovam.nl    CooP-Africa is one of the partners of Cycletours. Cycletours organises bicycle holidays for everyone. www.cycletours.nl    Arrange your holiday through ‘Reis-idee’ and CooP-Africa benefits too. www.reis-idee.nl   Bonnier Advocaten contributes to the Bike4Work project in Uganda. www.bonnieradvocaten.nl   Profile Roel Peerenboom […]

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  • This project focuses on the mobility constraints faced by young people, living in Internatelly Displaced People camps in Katakwi District, in accessing educational facilities, particularly girls. Distances to school are long in this area. By providing bicycles, it is aimed at decreasing the dropout rate of secondary school students so as to provide a better […]

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  • CooP-Africa, Cycling out of Poverty, is a charity that supports small entrepreneurs, students and health workers in Africa by giving access to bicycles. A bicycle plays a major role in enabling African people to improve their access to income generation, education and health care. With local partner organisations in Burkina Faso, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, CooP-Africa makes innovative […]

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