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  • MiBici- Costa Rica

    Changing Lives

    A bike is more than transportation, it can empower individuals and entire communities.

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  • Village Bicycle Project

    Empowering Women

    We provide bicycles and mechanical training and teach women how to ride, empowering them with skills to keep their families moving forward.

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  • CESTA El Salvador

    Training Mechanics

    Vocational training provides personal empowerment, professional opportunities and a way to provide for families and communities.

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  • Bikes for the Philippines

    Keeping Students in School

    Many students face long walks to school, donated bikes get them there faster and help them stay in school.

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  • Village Bicycle Project

    Transforming Communities

    Donated bikes allow health workers to see more clients, farmers to get goods to market and small business owners to support their families.

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Changing lives one bike at a time.

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Lives Improved

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Village Bicycle Project- Ghana

Village Bicycle Project makes cycling an attractive option for entire communities. Improved mobility enables productivity with better access to jobs, schools and healthcare, not to mention the environmental and health benefits of cycling. Janet is an apprentice dressmaker. Her bike saves her time and energy traveling from her village to the city center where she receives training and now has better access to jobs.

Gerardo received our 100,000th bike donated in 2014. Find out how it has changed his life below.

#Wheel News

18 September 2018
Cycloville: New Kenyan Partner
Cycloville: New Kenyan Partner
​New in 2018! Bikes for the World added a new partner in August when we shipped our first container to Cycloville in Kenya. Cycloville is not a new organization; in fact it's not even new to us. Cycloville is a network of cyclists...
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28 August 2018
Gerardo is Graduating
Gerardo is Graduating
Gerardo lives in the Guanacaste region of Costa Rico with his family. He is the oldest of four and strives to set a positive example for his sister and two younger brothers. When we first met Gerardo in 2014, he was 12 years old a...
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01 September 2018
Featured Volunteer: Glenn Martin
Featured Volunteer: Glenn Martin
Glenn joined the Bikes for the World team several years ago while we were still operating out of Arlington VA. No one may have been more excited to see us move back across the river to Rockville than Glenn. Back then we saw him ma...
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