A bicycle workshop and training centre is set up in Kisumu, Kenya's third largest city. By providing trainings, offering micro credit facilities for (modified) bicycles, and creating employment it is aimed to reduce poverty. Read more...
People in the dry and hot Ngeruka region live in extreme poverty. Specifically women are suffering under the hard conditions to raise an income. This project aims to enable women to increase their income by increased profit from the sales of their crops on various markets, and a reduction of their transport cost. Read more...
Gakenke is a very fertile and hilly area, where people are able to grow a variety of crops. There is plenty of food. Since the village is very remote, the people are facing difficulties in getting their products to the nearest market. They depend on others for transportation, what compromises the profit on their products. Read more...
Uvumbuzi is starting a bicycle on credit project for a group of rice farmers and traders in central Kenya. Read more...
The target group of this project is small farmers, traders and students in the township Glei. Read more...
The 50 women in this project are using the bicycle for domestic tasks such as fetching water. The time they safe by using the bicycle enables them to spent more time on selling their crops such as tomatoes and green matoke bananas. Some women start a small enterprise with the bicycle and start buying and selling melk door to door. Read more...
This bicycle project in Tchamba, central Togo, includes 30 women. The bicycle helps them out in their daily activities, improving their conditions of life. Read more...
In the village of Nariou (35 km north of Koudougou) our partner organisation AVO gave out 115 bicycles. The bicycles are used by the women to start up a small enterprise, such as selling ground nuts or local donuts. Read more...
65 bicycles for small entrepreneurs in the rural area of Ananekrom in Ghana. Read more...
Because peace is finally setting in in the Katakwi district, bicycles are a useful tool for the people to make a living. The bicycle improves people's mobility and improves the social-economical position of the families. It opens up new income generating opportunities, enables them to transport more products to the market, improves access to medical and educational facilities, opens up opportunities to diversify their sources of income and improves their social participation. Read more...
In Doulou, a village north of Koudougou, bicycles are given out to women in the rural areas. Read more...
In Patriensa in the Asante Akim District in Ghana, bicycles are given out to small entrepreneurs. Read more...