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We loaded 475 bikes into the container for the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana.
105 used children's bikes
367 used adult bikes
43 used wheels

We will be filling a container with bikes on Saturday, June 23rd (instead of Wednesday June 20th), bound for the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana.

From: Ability Bikes [mailto:abilitybikes@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:15 PM

On behalf of the Management of Ability Bikes, we wish to express our profound gratitude to you for the donation to us and we appreciate your effort been done.

The container arrived at port on the around 15th August, 2012 but we cleared it arrived in Koforidua, our place on the 22nd August, 2012, because it arrived late we off load them on the 23rd, and everything was successfully
done.

Working Bikes successfully loaded 496 bicycles in a container destined for The Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) in Cape Town, South Africa ...

"The Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN) was launched in Cape Town on 7 February 2002. BEN promotes the use of bicycles in order to address low-cost mobility, health and access to opportunity, employment, skills and education. In collaboration with both national and international development/ donor agencies, the project facilitates the transportation of bicycles from Europe, Great Britain and the United States to South Africa, the establishment of bicycle workshop projects and the introduction of bicycle user paths/ networks. To ensure the success of the project, BEN has established working partnerships with the Netherlands based Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE) the Shova Kalula (Pedal Easy) project of the South African National Department of Transport (NDoT), the cities of Cape Town, Tshwane and Johannesburg, and various SA CSO’s and cycling organisations. BEN is a national program based in Cape Town."

We will be filling another container with bikes, etc., this one bound for The Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) in Cape Town, South Africa ...

To join in and help with loading, come along to Working Bikes at 2434 S. Western Avenue in Pilsen, from 10am until we're done - perhaps around 4pm?

512 Used Bicycles of which 379 were adult bikes and 133 were child bikes.
27 extra used wheels
15 boxes of used parts (without the boxes).

We will load 500 bicycles for the Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnologia Apropiada (CESTA), Friends of the Earth El Salvador.

The majority of these bicycles were provided by the Campus Bike Project of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

We had got over 400 bikes (317 adult MTBs & 110 children's bikes) and lots of spare parts into the container when I left, and there was still room for a few more!

We are filling a container to ship bikes to the Prisoner Support Organization in Uganda on Easter Saturday.

Check here & here for information on previous successful shipments to this partner in May & October 2010, here for the container we sent in May & here for the container we sent in November 2011, then here for pictures of the arrival and unpacking of a container bikes in Uganda.

THANK YOU!! To all of the wonderful folks who came through in the bitter cold & packed up 435 BIKES for our friends at the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana.