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- Since 2001 I’ve traveled on photo safari to several countries on the African continent – S. Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya and Tanzania. Has anyone else here traveled anywhere in Africa – or to a developing nation with a very large rural population with nearly non existent transportation infrastructure? If so, you may have noticed as I did that mobility is severely compromised for the rural population. It was after my first visit that the idea of Bicycles for Rural Africa arose.
- Most of my time in these countries was spent in the bush but we would travel from place to place by jeep, traveling through the small towns scattered on main routes. Every so often we encountered a man on a bike. But rarely. I asked our guides about this – the reply was that “he who owns a bicycle is a rich man”. He can get to a job or take products to the market and buy necessities from the market. Sometimes he even carries water back to his family.
- Ready Supply; Clear need. 1 million bikes are stolen in the u.s. alone Bikes stack up at police stations and may be sold at auction for pennies on the dollar. Thousands are abandoned, sold at garage sales or dumped. – Donate that bicycle! Works for cars!
- Social Benefits: Job, go to market, social interaction between villages Economic: provide a means for people to raise their standard of living, provide local businesses to sell the bikes, sell parts and provide maintenance and training Environmental: Bicycles are a “0” carbon footprint technology.
- Charity and fundraising apparatus with local presence in US and in candidate country. Suppliers can be many – police departments, private and corporate donations, warehouseing Government/community. It is important to develop ties with local in country governement entities to avoid roadblocks to success and to get a partner to help. Local in country organization would provide the local community structure to assist with the logistics of distribution, bicycle maintenance and on-going operations.
- Charity and fundraising apparatus with local presence in US and in candidate country. Suppliers can be many – police departments, private and corporate donations, warehouseing Government/community. It is important to develop ties with local in country governement entities to avoid roadblocks to success and to get a partner to help. Local in country organization would provide the local community structure to assist with the logistics of distribution, bicycle maintenance and on-going operations.
- Charity and fundraising apparatus with local presence in US and in candidate country. Suppliers can be many – police departments, private and corporate donations, warehouseing Government/community. It is important to develop ties with local in country governement entities to avoid roadblocks to success and to get a partner to help. Local in country organization would provide the local community structure to assist with the logistics of distribution, bicycle maintenance and on-going operations.