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 Record One-Day Bike Drive Nets 700 Bicycles for Shipment to Uganda
On May 31, the Calvert County Public School System, in partnership with Bikes for the World, established a new one-day mark for collecting and donating bicycles for overseas. Not only did CCPSS volunteers at four collection sites receive and prep more than 700 usable bicycles, but together with a team of eight Bikes for the World volunteers and BfW’s director, successfully loaded 468 bicycles in the space of less than six hours, under a warm Maryland sun (and just before a torrential Maryland thunderstorm!). The bicycles loaded that day are destined for the Women Prisoner’s Support Organisation (www.wpsouganda.org) in Kampala, Uganda, to support the on-going Prisoners Peer Tutors Scheme project in Kirinya Prison, benefiting women and male ex-prisoners and their families. Many thanks to all who participated from both partners—to Rochelle Davis, Hellen Gelband, Nick Griffin, Jimmy Hall, Griffin Lenoir, Mark Powell, Jerry Rogers, George Tyler, who ably represented Bikes for the World; and to Ted Haynie and the many wonderful volunteers from the Calvert County Public School System (including Johnnie, Travis, Sharon, Dylan, and nearly 100 others at four sites—Patuxent High School, Huntington High School, Northern High School, and the Board of Education in Prince Frederick MD. |
