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Vist the issues and events surrounding some special places around the palouse...
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The Village Bicycle Project is a small part of a movement for human-level, environmentally sustainable development. There are many ways you can help: directly and indirectly.

Support Village Bicycle Project
Your check will help send specialized bike tools, offset shipping costs, and enable more students to learn bike repair while receiving discounted bikes.
$6 subsidizes the five most popular tools for one mechanic
$13 subsidizes one bike for our one-day workshops
$300 sponsors a one-day workshop, with 20 people getting half-price bikes

Donate online (go to 'online payment form' link, under Special Gifts choose Village Bicycle Project

or send a check to:
Village Bicycle Project
Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
PO Box 8596
Moscow ID 83843

Volunteer in Africa

Collect Bikes to Send Overseas
Here are some groups that ship bikes around the world and their collection areas:
Bikes Not Bombs, greater Boston
Re~Cycle, London and Colchester, England
Bikes for the World,Washington, DC
Workingbikes Co-op, Chicago
Cyclo Nord-Sud, Montreal
Pedals for Progress, New Jersey

email vbp@pcei.org to have your bike shipping group added to this list.

Collecting bikes for Ghana, what they want.


Support Pro-Bike Public Policy
Support efforts to revise policies towards development of non-motorized transport.
International Bicycle Fund has lots of information on community bike groups and cycling in Africa.
World Carfree Network has huge listing of pro-bike groups worldwide.
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
I-ce
First African Bicycle Information Office
(in U.K.)

League of American Bicyclists

more links of possible interest


last update: 3/13/2008

Village Bicycle Project
P.O. Box 8596 • Moscow ID 83843 • (208) 882-1444 • vbp@pcei.orghttp://www.pcei.org/vbp/