Thank you so much for the container you sent to Sierra Leone! Chris Harbert-Erceg and I, Kimberly Reid, are currently volunteering from the US in Sierra Leone with the Village Bicycle Project. We just wanted to let you know that the container arriv…
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May 1, 2013 |
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It took several weeks of help from volunteer Chris Harbert-Erceg to get the place organized enough to find the parts that people ask for. Now the family is running what is surely the largest bicycle spare parts shop in the country. Indeed, its pro…
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May 1, 2013 |
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We currently have three ! volunteers in Sierra Leone, scaling up our programs there. Chris Harbert-Erceg is about four months into a twelve-month stay.
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March 9, 2013 |
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September 28 I just reached Sierra Leone, where I’m meeting our Ghana Programs Coordinator Jason Finch and our fall volunteer Joe Diomede, with the stated goal of scaling up our Sierra Leone program towards matching the output of our Ghana program.…
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October 2, 2012 |
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August was a busy month for VBP in Ghana. We ran two teams simultaneously across three locations, visited two regions and hosted programs in 9 different villages. We were on the road for 24 days, delivered 300 bicycles and met 8 local bicycle mechani…
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September 18, 2012 |
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Traveling around Sierra Leone to find new sites for VBP projects
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September 15, 2012 |
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Wrapping up L2R in Konta Line and Maronka while we prepare for a busy fall
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September 15, 2012 |
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Talking with the students in Konta Line about what they want to be when they grow up
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September 15, 2012 |
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Starting L2R at a primary school
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September 15, 2012 |
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Wrapping up L2R with some racing
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September 15, 2012 |
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We were in Ghana's Upper West Region for 3 weeks in June, where we hosted 15 One Day Workshops and delivered 300 bicycles to participants from Piina and another 10 of its surrounding outlying villages.
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July 17, 2012 |
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Teaching how to ride a bike without using words
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September 15, 2012 |
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The challenges facing children seeking an education in West Africa
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September 15, 2012 |
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The challenges of maintaining a bicycle in Sierra Leone
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September 15, 2012 |
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Starting new Learn to Ride classes in Sierra Leone
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September 15, 2012 |
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We schedule our programs by location, and usually workshop several villages in one trip. We first deliver our bicycles in huge rented trucks, and then move between programs on public transport, carrying all our tools, spares and consumables along wit…
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June 17, 2012 |
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This shaky mobile phone video was shot by our Program Coordinator, Jason Finch, in Ghana as he returned from a worskhop in Akonkonti. Behind Jason are our instructors, Abokyi Samadu and Moro Musa, riding motorbikes, and then behind them - to much sur…
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June 17, 2012 |
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We're in Ghana's Brong-Ahafo Region this week for more One Day Workshops in three of Techiman's outlying villages. Asueyi, Akonkonti and Tinebea will host 6 days of workshops and deliver 120 bicycles, 50 of which will include our made-in-Ghana carrie…
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June 17, 2012 |
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We're back in the Eastern Region this week for more One Day Workshops. This is the second we've held programs in Apreguso, and the first time in neighbouring Frankadua, 4kms further east.
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May 29, 2012 |
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Last weekend VBP were invited to a grass-track race meet in Apeguso, a little roadside town in Ghana's Eastern Region, that has previously hosted our One Day Workshops and Learn2Ride programs.
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May 22, 2012 |
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VBP relies on a number of organisations across the UK, US and Canada, for donations of bicycles to meet the demand for our programs in Africa. We simply couldn't do it alone!
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May 21, 2012 |
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In 2011, VBP commissioned a report on the the effectiveness of our One Day workshops in Ghana's Upper West Region from our Women's Program Coordinator, Liz Beagant. The report looked at issues of targeting, usage patterns, repair and maintenance beha…
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May 6, 2012 |
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Last year we initiated a pilot-program in Ghana to mass-produce 200 cargo-carriers to accompany bicycles offered to workshops in the Upper West Region. The carriers were made locally in Wa - the regional capital, and cost GHc5 or $3 each.
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April 16, 2012 |
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Welcome to the new Village Bicycle Project blog. From here we'll be regularly posting news and updates on our work and whereabouts. To begin, today we're in Ko, a tiny village in the Namdom province of Ghana's Upper West Region. St Monica's Wid…
Categories: Ghana, Workshops | Tags: None
April 8, 2012 |
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