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Bicycles For Humanity Partners with School District 45 to Collect Bicycles for the Walvis Bay Multi-Purpose Centre in Namibia

West Vancouver, British Columbia, May 19th, 2008 - Bicycles for Humanity, a grassroots charitable organization, has partnered with West Vancouver schools to collect over 300 bikes and five tons of parts donated by Norco for the Walvis Bay Multi-Purpose Centre in Namibia.

The Walvis Bay Multi-Purpose Centre is run by women who are HIV positive. Volunteers of this organization use the bikes for transportation while caring for orphans, HIV/AIDS patients and people with disabilities.

In addition to giving to the global community, this collection has provided a service learning opportunity for students of the West Vancouver School District. Students learned about HIV/AIDS, global inequality, and global citizenship through assisting with the collection of the bikes while taking their first step to becoming a global citizen. Fifty eight students participated in the project and over 30 of them spent their weekend collecting bicycles.

This site will be updated when the container arrives to show how the bicycles will be of benefit to the people of Walvis Bay.

The success of the collection is a credit to the adult and student volunteers who donated their time and skills to the project. The collection was also made possible by generous support from the following companies: