Bikes for Africa

I cycle everyday to work and is quite fun and exhausting (and dangerous!). The traffic is terrible, fumes, minibuses, people, etc. But still I am lucky, many Malawians cannot afford a bike or the minibus (is 20 cents of a euro for a ride in Blantyre) so they walk one hour or more to get to work.

 

So many people ask me what will I do with my bike when I go home, so I wondered what could I do to help people to get cheap bikes. Obviously, I was not the first one in having this idea, and I’ve found some organizations that collect second hand bicycles, fix them and send them to Africa.

 

Bikes can help people to get to work (or school!), are cheap to maintain, environmentally friendly and can generate small business that sells or repairs them. If you are interested you can have a look to the links below, and may be you can help giving an old bike!!

 

http://www.africycle.org/

 

http://re-cycle.org/index.html

 

http://www.vcd-bw.de/aktionen/bikes4africa/index_en.html

 

http://www.springwise.com/nonprofit_social_cause/i_want_to_ride_my_bicycle/