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Bike for the World,


Unwanted bicycles are being sent from the United States and Canada to
be made into power sources that drive corn grinders and water pumps in
Guatemala. An organization called Maya Pedal is the force behind the effort to help poor people increase their corn
grinding potential greatly so they can have more food, and sell their
corn or corn products more easily. Maya Pedal also converts old bicycles into threshers, tile makers, nut shellers, blenders, trikes and trailers.


Just to be clear, it is humans who pedal the old bikes once they have
been converted, so it is human power, but the bike technology is the
means for doing the work that otherwise is done by hand. Guatemala is
one of the poorer countries in the world with a per capita annual income of $4,690.


Maya Pedal has several partners in Guatemala to help them provide bike machines to people in need to
help them produce more food and save time. In North America, Bikes not Bombs in Boston has collected and shipped two containers of old, but functional bikes to Guatemala. Working Bikes in Chicago has shipped one container of bikes there. Pedal Energy Development Alternatives in Vancouver, Canada has been instrumental in supporting Maya Pedal,
and has sent a number of interns to Guatemala who have helped get the organization up and running.


If you have unused bikes, and want to donate them, try contacting a
local biking organization to see if they are capable of collecting and
shipping them, or if they have any interest in starting a project to
send them in the way Bikes not Bombs did. If you are in Boston, Chicago
or Vancouver you could contact those organizations directly. If they
aren’t any options available in your area for donating bikes to Maya
Pedal, you could email one of the above organizations and ask if you
could send your old bikes to them, so they can pass them on. Another
bike donation organization, Bike for the World, sends bikes to African countries.

Bikes Turned into Mini Power Plants



posted by Jake Richardson


Read more: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/bikes-turned-into-mini-power-plants.html#ixzz1N04sv0Pm
Read more: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/bikes-turned-into-mini-power-plants.html#ixzz1N04CA8km

posted on May 21, 2011 8:14 AM ()

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It just takes one small idea to transform a nation!
comment by redimpala on May 21, 2011 9:00 AM ()
YES and did you watch Oprah yesterday? GREAT example of what you are saying.
https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Oprahs-Surprise-For-Tererai-Video/topic/oprahshow

As a young girl in rural Zimbabwe, Tererai Trent lived without running water and electricity and had no hope for her future. "I remember very well my father pointing to my brothers and the other boys in the village and saying: 'These are the breadwinners of tomorrow. We need to educate them. We need to send them to school. The girls will get married,'" she says. "And that was just a painful experience for me."
Tererai not only broke the cycle—she shattered it. In 1998, Tererai moved to Oklahoma with her husband and now five children. Just three years later, she earned a bachelor's degree in agricultural education. In 2003—the same year her husband was deported for abuse—Tererai obtained her master's degree.
After every achievement, Tererai returned home to Zimbabwe, unearthed her tin of dreams and checked off each goal she accomplished, one by one. In December 2009, the now happily remarried Tererai will realize her greatest dream of all—a doctoral degree.

Tererai is a symbol of hope in her village. On a trip home in 2009, Tererai and her mother encouraged a new generation of girls to dream, giving them pens, paper and tiny metal tins. "It makes me feel happy, but at the same time, it makes me feel empty that there are more women who could have the same opportunity but they are not getting it," she says. "My story is not about me, but it's about what can come out of my story."
After Lisa Ling's report on rape in the Congo, Oprah Show viewer Lisa Shannon was moved to take action. She was inspired by Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, and sponsored two rape victims. Lisa Shannon exchanged letters and donated money to help these women pay for basic needs and education. After sponsoring two women, she started her own organization and raised enough money to sponsor more than 1,000 women. See what happens when Lisa Shannon travels to the Congo to meet her new sisters.
Find out how you can sponsor women in the Congo with Women for Women International.
reply by anacoana on May 21, 2011 9:14 AM ()
I have the feeling that those who peddle the bikes aren't fat--maybe I should apply for the job?
comment by greatmartin on May 21, 2011 8:19 AM ()
Martin, check out this for some fun photos..biker
https://www.blogster.com/anacoana/article-and-fun-photoscurious
reply by anacoana on May 21, 2011 8:35 AM ()
comment by marta on May 21, 2011 8:16 AM ()
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ~Author Unknown

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life. ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
reply by anacoana on May 21, 2011 8:37 AM ()

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