BSPW, Cycling out of Poverty’s partner organisation in Uganda, organised a training for small entrepreneurs in the bicycle-on-credit projects. The support from e.g. Profile Roel Peerenboom and doubling of NCDO, BSPW is giving out 100 bicycles-on-credit to small entrepreneurs. In two training sessions the group is trained in small entrepreneurship management and book keeping (see […]
CONTINUE READINGSince April of this year, bicycle shop Profile Roel Peerenboom is supporting a bicycle project of Cycling out of Poverty in Uganda. The mayor of Wageningen launched the campaign. People who buy a bicycle at Peerenboom are invited to give a voluntary donation to Cycling out of Poverty. Peerenboom is contributing another 500 euros. He […]
CONTINUE READING{youtube}S6HYTWB3opI|300|225{/youtube} Nick Abreu, a student from Harvard University, did research on how a bicycle can make a difference in accessing health care. Diseases such as malaria are very common in Africa, even though medicines and preventive measures such as mosquito nets are available. People literally just don’t have access to these. Nick analysed that there […]
CONTINUE READINGCycling out of Poverty’s partner organisation in Burkina Faso (AVO) started the construction of a bicycle workshop. In this workshop, bicycles will be sold and repaired. The women in AVO’s bicycle-on-credit projects will be trained in basic bicycle maintenance and repair in this workshop. The workshop will be finalised in the coming months.
CONTINUE READINGRecently the collegues from Marketing & Products of the Fortis Bank Netherlands and ABN AMRO merged into the head office of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. To get to know each other better, a cycling competition was set up: “Tour de Chance”. During 3 days, 157 kilometres were covered, some of which in record time. With […]
CONTINUE READING{youtube}1FqLte3q-wg|300|225{/youtube} Wiki-bike is inviting students, designers and other interested people to submit their ideas for durable and sustainable bicycles and join the African Bicycle Design Contest 2010-2011. A professional jury will judge all contributions and select 5 design ideas in October 2010. The five winning contributions will be awarded with a design team who will […]
CONTINUE READINGThe weather wasn´t very nice, but this didn´t hamper 133 cyclists who participated in the Langszy bicycle tour. Cyclists cycled 80 or 125 km around Nijmegen in the Netherlands. After the tour a raffle was held for Cycling out of Poverty, with prizes related to cycling and Africa. The proceeds go to the project for […]
CONTINUE READINGA second group of beneficiaries have been able to receive a bicycle on credit in Ngeruka Rwanda. 19 people have received a bicycle on the 7th of May. Before that day they received a training on saving and credit (13 April) and bicycle repair and maintenance (27 April). The beneficiaries pay of the bicycle in […]
CONTINUE READINGFrom the 18th to the 25th of August, Erik Heijn is going to cycle 900 kilometre in Flanders for Cycling out of Poverty. He is still looking for sponsors. Will you help him accomplish his tour? Check out his GeefSamen page (Dutch) for more info. Do you want to organise a sponsor activity for Cycling […]
CONTINUE READINGOur cycling ambassador, Frank van Rijn, has written a fantastic story for the Dutch magazine Op pad. In his unique style he describes the tour in which he visits some of the bicycle projects of Cycling out of Poverty in Uganda and Kenya. Frank van Rijn has made a photo presentation of this trip, from […]
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