Students in Uganda who received a bicycle via Cycling out of Poverty wrote essays about their bicycle. Some of the phrases from the essays: “It helped to save the life of my sister who was bitten by a snake and was rushed to the hospital by bicycle.” (Okia Charles, 17 years). “I use it for…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGCycling out of Poverty has a new board member. Christel Hoogland is joining the team. Christel worked for Cordaid on development issues, for instance in South Africa and Kenya. Since Christel recently left Cordaid, she will keep her link with development cooperation as board member of Cycling out of Poverty. We are welcoming Christel and…lees verder
CONTINUE READING{youtube}1FqLte3q-wg|300|225{/youtube} Cycling out of Poverty started the platform wiki-bike.com, in cooperation with Slimmer foundation and Ideal&co. Via this platform, people are invited to share ideas on bicycle designs with others, inspiring each other. Via wiki-bike.com people can send in ideas for the African Bicycle Design Contest 2010-2011. The aim of this contest is to co-create…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGBSPW, 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…lees verder
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…lees verder
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…lees verder
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…lees verder
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…lees verder
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…lees verder
CONTINUE READINGDoneer nu makkelijk en snel aan de fietsprojecten van Cycling out of Poverty
