Bicycles for Humanity www.bicycles-for-humanity.org Bicycles for Humanity, based in British Columbia, seeks to increase the benefits to poor people in developing countries through scaling up the collection of bicycles from the United States and Canada. It mobilizes community groups across the North American continent to indepndently collect and ship container-loads of bikes. Its current focus is on providing bikes in Africa to help students get to distant schools, and support health workers to fight AIDS. Bikes for the World and Bicycles for Humanity are looking at ways to work together towards these common objectives. Village Bicycle Project www.pcei.org/vbp Collects bicycles for distribution in West Africa, providing training and technical assistance in bicycle mechanics and maintenance to mechanics and users. Focus on improving tool use. Bicycle Empowerment Network-Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, www.benbikes.org.za/namibia Founded in 2005, BEN-Namibia reconditions and distributes bicycles from support groups in the United Kingdom and North America to local micro entrepreneurs, health workers, students and teachers. It receives shipments from the Bicycles for Humanity network, and Bikes for the World. Working Bikes Cooperative , Chicago Illinois USAwww.workingbikes.org Founded in 2001, WBC collects bicycles in the Chicago area and donates them overseas. WBC’s methodology differs slightly from most other collecting organizations in that it repairs and sells road bikes in the Chicago area, using the proceeds to pay a mechanic and the expenses of the international shipment of mountain and BMX bikes. Bikes Not Bombswww.bikesnotbombs.org, Roxbury, Massachusetts USA Bikes Not Bombs is a non-profit organization working for alternative transportation and community development locally as well as internationally. The group operates the Bicycle Recycling and Youth Training Center in Roxbury MA, to promote environmental education, meaningful employment, and safe sustainable communities, both in the Boston area and abroad. Institute for Transportation and Development Policy www.itdp.org Research and advocacy organization promoting environmentally and economically sustainable transport worldwide, with a focus on the poor. Founded 1984. Pedals for Progresswww.p4p.org Collects used bicycles in the New York metropolitan and New England regions, for donation overseas. Founded 1991. Re~Cyclewww.re-cycle.org Collects unwanted bicycles in England, for shipment overseas (primarily to Africa). Founded 2000. Cycle North Southwww.cyclonordsud.org Collects unwanted bicycles in Montreal, Canada, for shipment overseas.
|
