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Worldbike is an international network of bicycle designers and industry leaders, and international development professionals, working together to provide transportation solutions and create income-generating opportunities for the world’s poor. All across the developing world, people use bicycles the way we use pickup trucks and school busses. However, the bicycles sold in developing countries are those designed for recreation and are ill-suited to carrying loads.
Worldbike designs higher-strength, longer-wheelbase bicycles with integrated cargo capacity. We conduct trial markets to determine the ideal price levels, work with the bike industry to get the best quality parts and frames at the lowest cost, and partner with international development organizations like Kickstart International to sell and distribute the bicycles.
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http://www.worldbike.org/
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 | Re~Cycle
Bicycles Change Lives. Transport and development go hand-in-hand. Virtually everything traded, must be transported, and almost everyone needs wheels to get to work or school. Simple, affordable transport generates wealth in developing countries, as well as saving
lots of time and back-breaking work.
In Britain, millions of bikes are thrown away or lie unused in sheds, whilst many people in Africa have no access to transport of any kind. Walking can take up-to 4 hours per day (collecting water, or walking to school). The burden can cripple a family, hampering work and education opportunities. A bicycle cuts travel time to a fraction, even carrying passengers and heavy loads. Bikes give families the extra time to earn, learn and enjoy life.
Re~Cycle's mission is to collect secondhand bicycles and ship them Africa. Our partners distribute bikes and teach riders the skills to repair and maintain them. Our bikes also help health/AIDS workers reach remote villages and even provide an ambulance service in remote Namibia.
We have sent 26,756 bikes so far! With your help, we'll send many thousands more.
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http://www.re-cycle.org/
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 | Bikes Not Bombs
Lasting peace and social justice require equitable and sustainable use of resources. BNB provides community-based education and assists development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance, as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption & inequality that breed war and environmental destruction. Our organization is part of a worldwide movement for peace and responsible stewardship of the earth.
We currently receive approximately 5,000 used bicycles and tons of used parts each year. We ship about 3,500 of these bikes to economic development projects (micro-enterprise bike businesses, sustainable technology projects, and youth training programs) in South Africa, Ghana, and Guatemala every year. BNB also sends technicians and tools for start-up projects to these same countries. (In the past we have worked in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and El Salvador, and we continue to accept new requests for assistance from projects in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.) We use the remainder of our collected bikes at our Jamaica Plain Center; some are used in our co-ed youth Earn-A-Bike programs, and others are repaired by teenage mechanics as part of our Vocational Training programs and are for sale in our bike shop. BNB also offers girls-only programs all year round.
We operate a full-service bike shop, staffed by local teen graduates of BNB training programs and supervised by professional adult bike mechanics. The shop repairs customer bikes, offers hard-to-find used parts and sells new parts, locks, accessories and refurbished bikes with a warranty. Shop specialties include renovated upright-bar 12 speeds, single-speed coasting and fixed-gear bikes, reconditioned mountain and hybrid models of all brands, and higher-end touring and road bikes. We sell frames alone, including used Titanium Merlin frames.The BNB Bicycle Shop and Training Center opened the doors of its new location in February, 2007. Directions
In addition to training young people to become bicycle mechanics and community leaders, we have many ways in which adults can get involved. Adult volunteers help teach youth in the Earn-A-Bike program, after taking our training course. We also teach adult mechanics classes, organize seasonal rides, and are always in need of volunteer help on Wednesday nights and at other times.
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http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/
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 | Bikes for the World
As much as possible, Bikes for the World uses the donated bicycles to help set-up self-sustaining bicycle repair operations which can make enough money to pay the shipping costs for subsequent container shipments of donated bicycles.
Bikes for the World also operates the Rockville Youth Bicycle Project in suburban Maryland, offering local youth opportunities to learn about bicycles, fulfill high school community service requirements, earn a reconditioned bicycle, and bike safely and enjoyably.
Bikes for the World was founded in January 2005 and made its first independent shipment in February 2005, to Honduras. In its first three years, Bikes for the World has donated more than 20,000 bicycles to ten partner agencies in eight countries, as well as to several programs serving youth and adults in the Washington DC metropolitan area. In the spring of 2007, BfW opened its own youth bike program, in Rockville MD, serving local youth and the community-at-large. The Rockville Youth Bicycle Project offers local youth opportunities to learn about bicycles, fulfill Maryland high school community service requirements ("student service learning"), earn a reconditioned bicycle, and bike safely and enjoyably.
BfW maintains a listserv of more than 600 volunteers and donors who provide generous in-kind and other support. Without this active volunteer base, BfW would be unable to collect, store, and ship bikes.
OUR MISSION:
Assist poor people overseas become more productive through providing affordable bicycles for personal transport to work, school, and health services. Secondarily, provide satisfying community service opportunities to Americans—collecting bikes and spare parts--towards realizing this primary goal of helping others overseas.
Achieve sustained and ever-larger impact here and abroad through partnering with organizations sharing a common concern for reducing waste and helping the poor earn more, learn more, and live more healthy lives.
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http://www.bikesfortheworld.org/
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 | Project Rwanda
Mission Statement: Project Rwanda is committed to furthering the economic development of Rwanda through initiatives based on the bicycle as a tool and symbol of hope. Our goal is use the bike to help boost the Rwandan economy as well as re-brand Rwanda as a beautiful and safe place to do business and visit freely.
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http://projectrwanda.org/
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 | Bicycles for humanity
A bike can change a life in a poor country. Yet for millions of people on the lowest incomes, a new bicycle is financially out of reach.
Meanwhile, millions of perfectly good bicycles lie unused in North America, Europe and elsewhere in the Western world.
Bicycles for Humanity began in September 2005 with the simple aim of enabling people to raise funds and collect unwanted bicycles to send to reliable partners in developing countries to provide affordable transport.
In developed countries, Bicycles for Humanity provides resources and support to make the process as simple and enjoyable as possible. In developing countries it works at the grassroots level to ensure that disadvantaged people are empowered through improved access to food and water, employment, healthcare, education and social opportunities. It also works hard to guarantee accountability and efficiency in all its projects.
Our focus for 2008 will be on distributing the Bicycling Empowerment Centre (BEC), a complete package that addresses bicycle delivery to remote areas, access to tools, training and spare parts.
On this site you will find information about volunteering, collections and developing country projects. You will come to know the people we empower and the many ways that recipients use bicycles to create new opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.
You will also find ways that you or your community group, service club, school, sport club, religious organisation or business can get involved. There are opportunities to support our projects by working within your community, and through direct connections with partners in a developing countries. Help send a BEC to a community in need.
Please visit our Humanity Rocks Initiative to find out more about how you can join and become a part of this grassroots program.
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http://www.bicycles-for-humanity.org/
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 | Pedal Power
PEDAL is a non-profit organization that develops and promotes the use of pedal-powered technology. We are the employees, board and volunteers supporting Our Community Bikes (OCB), the Bike Depot and PedalPlay.
Why do we do what we do?
By recycling and refurbishing bicycles, PEDAL takes bikes out of the waste stream, offers affordable bikes for sale and encourages cycling as a sustainable, healthy transportation choice.
EMPOWER
* Teach people how to fix and maintain their own bike.
* Offer work and experience and occupational therapy to volunteers from social service organizations.
ENABLE
* Provide free bikes to low-income individuals, as access to transportation is essential to participation in the job market and accessing social and economic resources.
* Develop and distribute pedal-powered technologies in rural and local communities.
EDUCATE
* Train and teach people to fix their own bikes, learn mechanic and bicycle safety skills.
* By promoting the use of bicycles and pedal-powered technologies, PEDAL improves our common environment from global climate change.
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http://www.pedalpower.org/
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 | Cycling out of Poverty
About Cycling out of Poverty
African women and children cover long distances on foot every day, carrying many kilos water and firewood on their head. This is a time and energy consuming job. A bicycle can break the vicious circle of poverty and offer women the chance to climb out of poverty. With a bicycle, they can transport more products to the market, go to the market more often and work more time on their fields, which makes it possible to generate more income. It is amazing that a bicycle, an item which is so common in the Netherlands, can make a world of difference in Africa...
What is Cycling out of poverty?
Cycling out or poverty is a Dutch foundation engaging in fundraising for bicycle micro credit projects in Africa. Many poor Africans lack money to buy a bicycle but do have a view on how a bicycle could be used to earn a livelihood. These people can turn to one of our African partner organisations and apply for a Cycling out or poverty-subsidised bicycle which they can pay off in monthly instalments. The beneficiaries receive the bicycle at the first down payment so they can use the bicycle to earn some extra money with which to pay off the bicycle and cycle their way out of poverty.
We work with African partner organisations.
Cycling out of poverty selects and helps the African partner organisations. The African partner organisations cater for the bicycles (they buy them on the local market), the selecting and training of the beneficiaries (the women get a day of training in which they make a plan on how they will use the bicycle to earn money, and in which they learn the basics of credits and savings, and some basic knowledge of bicycle maintenance and -repair), the give away of the bicycles to the beneficiaries and the collecting of the instalments.
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http://www.cyclingoutofpoverty.com/
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