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 […]
CONTINUE READING →{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 […]
CONTINUE READING →{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 […]
CONTINUE READING →{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 […]
CONTINUE READING →{youtube}1FqLte3q-wg|300|225{/youtube} Cycling out of Poverty invites you to send in ideas for sustainable bicycle designs for Africa. Bicycles made from bamboo, recycled plastic, or, designs for bicycle ambulances, bicycle carts, etc. Based upon a needs assessment on the type of bicycles needed in Africa, everyone is invited to send in photo’s and designs in a […]
CONTINUE READING →{youtube}xxdC06jaHKo|300|225{/youtube} On Saturday 13th of February the bicycle workshop in Kisumu Kenya was officially opened. The boda boda bicycle taxi community put in a lot of work for 2 weeks in renovating the place, just in time for the pre-launch. The same day global cyclist and ambassador of Cycling out of Poverty Frank van Rijn […]
CONTINUE READING →Ambassador Frank van Rijn visits a number of projects of Cycling out of Poverty, by bicycle. Last week he was in Katakwi (Uganda) and this week in Butagaya (Uganda). The route from Katakwi to Butagaya was typical African. In Katakwi he discussed with local people the best route to Butagaya, and they told him that […]
CONTINUE READING →In December 2009 students of the Citadel College in Lent chose Cycling out of Poverty as charity for which they were going to raise funds. Due to the heavy snow on the 22nd of December, the sponsor event was postponed to Wednesday 3rd of February. On this day, the students went to the centre of […]
CONTINUE READING →In 2009 the first biycle-on-credit project in Rwanda started, in a place called Ngeruka. The plan is that the 25 beneficiaries pay their last installment at the end of this month. Our partner organisation La Nouvelle Vie mentions that up until now all payments have been made in time and that also the last payment […]
CONTINUE READING →Frank van Rijn, the global cyclist from the Netherlands well-known for his books and presentations on his adventurous cycling tours, cycles in his role as ambassador of Cycling out of Poverty to some of the bicycle projects in Uganda and Kenya. From his start in Nairobi things could only get better. The traffic was awfully […]
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