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There are many bicycle reuse projects around the world, some shipping bikes overseas, others working locally. Below you will find a list of the ones we know of. However there are almost certainly others, so if you are aware of one that you think should be on the list please let us know.
We're doing a basic listing of projects for the moment but in the future we would like to have a searchable map as we have for the UK. |
North America (top)
United States
Bikes Not Bombs: "Bikes Not Bombs promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war and environmental destruction. For 25 years, BNB has been a nexus of bike recycling and community empowerment both in lower income neighborhoods of Boston and in the nations of the Global South. BNB's programs involve recycling thousands of bicycles and other environmentally sustainable modes of transportation."
Phone: 617-522-0222
Email: mail@bikesnotbombs.org
284 Amory St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Bikes for the World: "Bikes for the World is a sponsored project of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association whose central mission is to collect unwanted bicycles and related material in the United States and deliver it at low cost to community development programs assisting the poor in developing countries."
Email: info@bikesfortheworld.org
tel: 703-740-7856
Bikes for the World, Box 34,
Vienna, VA 22183
Ghana Bikes: Support the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana who we also ship bikes to.
Email: Submit a query online HERE
1915 11th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98102
Pedals For Progress: "Pedals For Progress has received and donated over 115,000 bicycles ... to partner charities in 32 developing countries."
Email: gary@p4p.org
Tel: (908) 638-4811
PO Box 312, High Bridge,
New Jersey 08829-0312
Working Bikes Cooperative: "The Working Bikes Cooperative is a not-for-profit organization which diverts bicycles from the waste stream in greater Chicago area & surrounding states. We repair some of these bikes for local donation & sale to help fund the overseas shipment & donation of all the remaining bicycles."
Email: donations@workingbikes.org.
tel: 312-421-5048 or 312-371-4286.
2434 S. Western Ave
Chicago, IL 60608
Canada
Africycle - Canada-The Hub Bike Shop
141 Reach Street, Unit 7
Uxbridge ON L9P 1L3
Bicycles for Humanity: "Empowering people to improve their quality of life by transferring mobility through the use of bicycles". An umbrella organisation with chapters all over the US. They have a listing of chapters with contact details HERE.
Email: info@bicycles-for-humanity.org
Place Du Parc Station
Local Benefit Bicycle Projects
Australasia (top)
International Bicycle Aid Projects
Australia Goodwill Bicycles Abroad: Bangalow, NSW. "Our goal is to collect, store, repair and distribute as many bikes as possible to those in need. We aim is to deliver as many bicycles as possible to as many people as possible in as many places as needed in Australia and overseas.
We have sent over 10,000 bikes to various developing countries including Africa, East Timor, Solomon Islands and the Australian Indigenous people around Alice Springs."
Email: goodwill_bicycles@yahoo.com.au
Tel: +61 2 6687 1759
3/9 Colin St
Bangalow
NSW
2479
Bicycle Recycling Network: Sidney, NSW. "Bicycle Recycling Network assists by diverting bicycles to various community groups in Sydney where they are refurbished and put back into the community. From bike art, wheelchairs for amputee victims, youth programs, preservation of historical bikes and bike fleets to bicycles being sent to third world countries, the alternatives are varied."
Email: karen@bicyclerecycling.com
Tel: 0410 019 714
Bikes 4 Life: Melbourne, Victoria. "Bikes 4 Life is a global community initiative that is dedicated to providing bicycles to people, particularly youth, who are underprivileged, aimed at helping the most vulnerable, isolated and neglected groups within society. It started with the idea to raise bikes for displaced people, former child soldiers and victims of war in Northern Uganda. We are now starting to also raise bikes for marginalized indigenous communities in Central Australia and on a local level throughout Melbourne, for disadvantaged youth and families most in need."
Email: ebony@bikes4life.com.au
tel: 0419 997 896
Australian Local Benefit Bicycle Projects
Bicycle Recycling Network List: A very comprehensive list of local benefit bicycle projects in Australia
Europe (top)
1000 Bringa Afrikanak:Hungarian organisation collecting bikes to send to Mali.
Email:info@adab.hu
tel: 06 20 378 89 62
Fiets Voor Afrika: Dutch chapter of Bicycles for Humanity based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They offer a service where you can hand over your old bike and get a discount on a new one. They also send bikes to one of our partners in Africa, the Bicycle Empowerment Network.
Email: support@fietsvoorafrika.nl
Cycling out of Poverty: Cycling out of Poverty are a Dutch organisation supporting small entrepreneurs (BIKE4WORK), students (CYCLE2SCHOOL) and health workers (BIKE4CARE) in Africa with bicycles on-credit. 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, improve access to schools and health care. Therefore, their local partner organisations in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda are providing bicycles on credit and are exploring innovative bicycle designs. They're contributing some of these designs to the Wiki Bike project.
You can learn more from a video they made HERE.
Email: info@cyclingoutofpoverty.com or Contact Page
tel. 0031(0)6-15895529
Cycling out of poverty
p/a Kasteelselaan 4
6574 AJ Ubbergen
Agenda 21 Partnership: Based in Aachen, Germany. Agenda 21 send bicycles to be used by rural communities, as well as other sustainable projects. They also send bikes to one of our partners in Africa, the Bicycle Empowerment Network.
Contact them through their on-line form HERE.
Baisikeli: Based in Copenhagen, Denmark. They collect unwanted bikes, repair them and send them to partners in Africa. Baisikeli also sell good quality used bicycles, and run a bike hire scheme in Copenhagen to support their running costs. Information about that can be found HERE.
Email: donation@baisikeli.dk
They have a list of their shops HERE.
Velos Für Afrika: A Swiss organization based in Bern.
They started in 1993 as an activity for jobless people to reintegrate them
into the labour market. Now encompassing many partner organizations in
Switzerland "Velos für Afrika" ship to Africa approximately 10'000 restored
quality bicycles per year where local partners sell an maintain the bikes at
affordable prices. On demand the local partners (e.g. vocational training
center, youth organization, small enterprises, fair-trade organizations, war
disabled, etc.) get assistance in capacity building. Velos für Afrika is
also developing three-wheel bicycles for handicapped people.
Email: info@gump-drahtesel.ch or michel.ducommun@gump-drahtesel.ch
tel: 031 979 70 70
Waldeggstrasse 27
3097 Liebefeld
Re-Cycle: We have been collecting bikes in the UK and shipping them to Africa since 1999. Full details can be found on our website.
Jole Rider: Collect bikes from the UK and ship them to their Bikes4Africa projects in The Gambia. Full details can be found on their website.
Asia (top)
Chari-de-Charity: Tokyo, Japan chapter of Bikes For Humanity, they collect bikes through the usual donations but also work with city authorities and railway stations to collect abandoned bikes.
Contact them through their contact form HERE
Bikes for Japan: Japan. Organisation set up with the aim of providing second hand bicycles to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11th 2011.
Email: bikesforjapan@gmail.com
Please get in touch if you know of any projects we've missed, or want to add your project to the directory.