Perth
Bicycles For Humanity Perth was founded in 2011 and is already off to a flying start.Currently you can drop your bike to any The Bicycle Entrepreneur stores in Perth and contact them through perth@bicyclesforhumanity.com B4H WA is delighted with the public response over the past 2 months. We now have enough to bikes to fill our first container (~400 bikes) which will be shipped to Namibia in October. While our wonderful volunteer team focuses on sorting, servicing and packing, we have suspended public collection days for the time being. We are planning another shipment in the not too distant future, so if you have a ...
News
B4h Melbourne was recently featured in The Age - You can read the full article here http://www.theage.com.au/national/melbourne-life/new-cycle-of-life-for-citys-bikes-20110602-1fiqk.html#ixzz1O9h2w3dh
‘Bikes for Africa’ - A two-wheeled documentary
The experiences of young adventurers Hap Cameron and Mandy Todd will be shared in the upcoming documentary 'Bikes for Africa'. The documentary will follow their attempt to ride 5000kms across Southern Africa to meet and implement a container of second-hand bicycles in the community of Katima Mulilo in Namibia. The two have teamed up with Bicycles For Humanity in Melbourne and Bicycle Empowerment Network (BEN) Namibia, and with the support of their community, friends and family, are working towards raising the AUD $12,000 to ship the container to Africa. Hap Cameron was born in New Zealand and has for many years pursued his goal of living ...
Hap Cameron Completes a Decades Journey in Africa
[caption id="attachment_476" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Hap And Paul finishing the packing"][/caption] Hap Cameron has spent the last decade traveling the world fulfilling a dream to live and work inevery continent by the time he's thirty. He'll be successfully completing this challenge next year by riding around 5, 000 km through Africa to rendezvous with one of our containers of bikes .He'll then help implement working with BEN Namibia. Hap is raising funds for this container and doing an astounding job having already raised many thousands of dollars. You can support him at http://www.everydayhero.com.au/hapworkingtheworld And check out the story so far at http://hapworkingtheworld.com
Kaoko Bike Work Shop - Opowu, Namibia
Our first container of bikes left for Namibia in June 2009. It is now an extremely successful bike work shop in the town of Opowu in northern Namibia. Implemented by BEN Nambia as a Bicycle Empowerement Centre the workshop has provided much of the local community with bikes which have changed their day to day lives. The income from the workshop is supporting the orphan program run by Red Cross. The container has now been modified - given an extra roof, doors and a concrete pad outside. Local particpants are trained as bike mechanics and also educated in business and ...
Donate your old bike
BIKE COLLECTION IS ON HOLD UNTIL 2012 If you have a bike for us - please hang on to it for another month or so. Our collection partners , Bicycle Super Store, get very busy this time of year - so if can be a little patient that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks If you have a bike to give us you can drop it at one of the many locations (see the FAQ section) that act as pick-up points for our three Australian chapters (Melbourne, Sydney and Perth). We'll be by within a few weeks to pick it up, prep it and pack ...
Bike Collection
We’ll be collecting bikes in 2012
Bicycles For Humanity Collection On Hold until 2012 If you have a bike for us -...
Olivia Appleby’s B4H Doco
We were very fortunate to have the amazing Olivia Appleby document our first bike...
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Ed Dale Runs Melbourne For B4H
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David Cann Escapes From Alcatraz
David Cann recently completed the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in San Fancisco and raised hundreds of dollars for Bicycles For Humanity in the process. Braving freezing and shark infested waters he swam 1.5 miles from Alcatraz to the main land, biked 18 miles and finished with a 8 mile run. He let us know how it all went - ‘I successfully ESCAPED... [Read more of this review]
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