Workshop graduates in Ghana, 2000 |
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Project Goals
The Village Bicycle Project (VBP) rescues bikes from the American
waste-stream, giving them a new life in Africa. Here in the US we throw
away a staggering amount of bikes, we have to because we cannot afford
the labor costs to have them repaired. In a village we once spent
several hours working with a man on his forty-year old bike, a bike so
twisted, bent and beat up it would have been junked immediately here at
home. Instead we greased, cleaned and adjusted as best we could so he
could get another five years use from it.
Click here to download the latest VBP
newsletter (pdf, 605kb).
http://www.pcei.org/vbp/
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