Used Bikes Needed for Africa
Please donate that old bike collecting dust in your garage and help spread the word, pass the attached flier on to other cyclists you know who may have a used bike that they are willing to part with. To a health care worker or a poor child in Africa, we’d be saving lives, providing cheap, clean mobility and spreading our love for the sport. Americans throw away almost 10 million bikes a year!We are shipping a container of bikes to Namibia, Africa in March. Paul Sherwin and Phil Liggett helped Bicycles for Humanity of Santa Rosa raise $10,000 (enough to purchase a Trans-Atlantic shipping container) last week in an event fundraiser, wine sales, and auction.
Thanks for being good human beings!
Pedro
http://www.bicycles-for-humanity.org/santarosa/index.php
February 24th, 2009 at
I know Africa is a wasteland and needs help, as do other parts of the world. But there are a lot of people here in the US that are equally screwed. When do people realize that to get or nation back on it’s feet we need to look within and at the local level. They say every $1 donated at the federal and international level only 5to 10 cents is used w/ the rest being soaked up with beaurocracy. If you donate that same $1 on the local level 90 cents is able to be used! So let’s start working on things the ground up (Don’t wait for the feds, they don’t care), let’s get something done.
Or better yet, encourage everyone to give up 1 hour a week for community service (you might have to miss reruns of the Simpson’s.) If 25% of the people of a town of 100,000 people participated, that is 25,000 hours a week! We would certainly see change! And fast! Problem is that everyone expects to be taken care of.
It’s all about the ground up.
Africa can wait or figure something out for themselves - we need help here baby and as an American I’ll donate my time, money, and resources to America.
February 24th, 2009 at
point well taken, if you have time and resources for local causes, awesome, DO IT.
The thing about this particular cause is that we are taking what amounts to garbage in the US, literally, and recycling it where it can be life changing and life saving. Millions of innocent people have no access to health care, clean water, etc. And proving transportation, via the bicycle to them, is a worthy cause.
while we are on hard times in the US, for sure, if you’ve ever been to any part of Africa, you’d know that our “hard times” look a lot like infinite luxury to them.