It is so hard to believe that we have shipped over 50,000 bicycles in 5 years and we still have not spent a cent on any overhead or administration. Grassroots movements are about people, about telling their stories and together making a difference, here and in the developing world. When these stories are told and retold, others want to tell the stories and become a part of the bigger story of the difference a bicycle can make, especially in the developing world. We invite you to share our story, to become a part of our story and to make a difference, we all can.
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Movements take time to grow and evolve. they are never easy and no one person controls or drives a movement, but a collective group of minds sharing a common set if ideas and beliefs. Like the book, ‘It’s not about the bike”, the story of Lance Armstrong, bicycles for Humanity is not about the bike, but what happens when people worlds apart decide to set about change through the gift of mobility a bicycle can deliver. the following are few thoughts and ideas about the Bicycles for Humanity Movement. if you would like to contribute and become a part of this global initiative, everyone is welcome.
Vision and Strategy
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of our movement and to share with all, our beliefs, model and strategy. The founding principals of the B4H Movement are as strong today as when our movement was founded 6 years ago. There are 4 guiding beliefs that our movement grows from. In the last 6 years, our movement has delivered over 70 containers or 40,000 plus bikes to Africa from over 30 chapters globally, literally thousands of volunteers and it continues to grow at a very rapid pace, all without any staff, support, central administration or monies spent. We are a pure grassroots movement and what connects and drives us is the common belief that , “A Bicycle can make a difference”
We believe that the gift of mobility that a bicycle can provide is universal, essential and empowering to all. Mobility delivered by a bicycle allows healthcare workers to do more, enables youth to travel long distances to school, entrepreneurs to establish business’s and deliver goods to distant markets. It also allows families to carry food and water long distances, hopefully allowing the family unit more time to be together.
To be truly sustainable, it must be embraced and accepted by our partner communities, with local teams taking full responsibility for the on going support of the program. Bicycles are delivered in Containers, local community members are trained in bike service and support and, with these BEC’s or Bicycle Empowerment Centers becoming the foundation to long term support, development, job creation and community development at many levels. Community is key to our movement, we encourage chapters here to work together with community groups and chapters in Africa. Global teamwork is key to both an understand and the development of new models to solve the problems facing many globally.
Bicycles for Humanity is a community based grassroots movement. Other than our main website, supporting a directory of all projects, there is no central organization, management or administration of any kind. We are a pure, highly efficient movement with community leaders organizing, their chapters, raising the funds to send the containers of bikes to Africa, to communities there that they want to support. This model allows all to organize, fundraise and collect in a manner that makes sense to them and their community. It also allows chapter heads to take charge, be accountable and to feel empowered as well as others on their team. In short, it is a very flat, very efficient model that allows whoever puts in energy to help do it the way they feel best. Much of our movements growth comes from individuals who, rather than just volunteer for a NGO or Non Government organization and just be a volunteer with little say, choose to start their own organization, while still being connected to a common vision through the movements belief’s.
Efficient models that empower the individual and the chapter to do more is the last founding key. Deep down everyone wants to make a difference, to contribute and to know that their efforts of helping others helps themselves and their communities at the same time. The B4H movement is really a model or template that allows all to help others globally and locally. It allows the creative energies and forces of many to focus on a very simple goal helping deliver the gift of mobility through a bicycle.
In Summary, The Bicycles for Humanity Movement Believes:
Bicycles are universal, everyone understands the power of a bike.
Individuals and their communities are empowered to make a difference.
The deliverables are clear and every project has a start and an end.
Accountability and responsibility stays with the chapter.
It’s fun and very rewarding on many levels, local, regionally and globally.
Bicycles for Humanity Developed World Chapter Model
Chapters and local community leadership are the foundation to the B4H Grassroots Movement. Chapter membership is open to all, individuals, schools, civic clubs, church’s, sports teams, really anyone who believes that a bicycle can make a difference and is interested in sending at least one container of bicycles a year to a community partner/chapter in Africa.
4 Guiding Principals of Chapters in the developed world are as follows:
Chapters are free to organize in any way that makes sense to them. Bicycles for Humanity existing chapter leaders and teams will mentor you and your team to the best of their abilities. All we ask is that a developed country Chapter try to deliver on their commitment of sending one container of bikes a year. If the chapter has raised funds and does not complete the process of sending a container, than we ask that that chapter forward any funds they have to an existing chapter. Chapters cover the cost of buying the container, which becomes the BEC, Bicycle Empowerment Center, all local logistics, plus the cost of Ocean freight to the closest African port. Depending on the partner relationship in Africa, some chapters may also cover the in country shipping and logistics on their own or in partnership with their African Community partner
Every chapter and chapter leader will be listed on our website, www.bicycles-for-humanity.org and in the main B4H directory, plus they will have a link to their website, Facebook or WordPress page. We encourage all chapters to support all 3 social media platforms, plus use Twitter to keep all informed locally, regionally and globally. We encourage chapters to follow a uniform naming model, example, Bicycles for Humanity, Ottawa. www.b4h-ottawa.org as an example. Today’s social media allows for all to spread the movement message virally and we encourage all chapters to establish links and favorites pages with all other chapters. This way you both learn what is going on within the movement, plus gain ideas on how to make your chapter better
Chapters are free to pick whatever community they want to support in Africa. In many countries like Namibia our movement has a long history with the Bicycle Empowerment Network and many chapters partner with this group. Other chapters establish their own partner programs in Africa and any new or existing chapter is free to join these initiatives, or you can start your own and grow B4H membership around your project. B4H has a set of logo’s and images that all chapters are encouraged to use, we also do not mind if you create your own or a variation of one of our existing ones.
By telling your story locally, the media is drawn to the efficiencies and value that a B4H Chapter partner creates in their community. We encourage all chapters to keep telling your story and the need for bicycles in Africa. We also encourage chapters to work together, share ideas and where possible establish relationships that are good for all chapters and communities in Africa.
In Summary Bicycles for Humanity Chapters are:
Free to organize in whatever way they like and support the community of their choice.
We ask that all chapters try and send at least one container of bicycles annually.
We encourage teamwork, both here and in Africa and by building community everyone benefits.
We encourage chapters to follow our core naming model and to use social media tools to tell their story and spread the word.
We respect the chapter structure and encourage all to do the same, while sharing and helping each other.
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Every day I wake up and check Google alerts, I am totally in awe by what is going on within the Bicycles for Humanity Movement. As a movement we are 6 years young and growing in a hundred directions, yet we have no staff, no budgets of any kind and no real organization, really no leadership, just a whole lot of people who believe that the gift of mobility that a bicycle can deliver is an important first step to a better life.
If we had created a Non Profit, organized centrally and asked people to join this NGO would we have grown the way we have, I don’t think so, would individuals be taking this in a hundred directions all good for their communities and good for communities in Africa, nope, don’t think that would have happened.
It’s hard to identify any one thing, it’s a lot of things. People want to make a difference, they want to drive change and they want to be accountable and know that what they are doing is making a difference. Today’s connected world of social media allows all with common interests to connect, organize and mobilize quickly and efficiently. The speed at which grassroots can drive change and the efficiencies of models that scale driven by concerned citizens who want to make a difference is a powerful force and one that is very difficult to stop.
There is a terrific book called, The Spider and the Starfish, the concept is simple. if you cut off the leg of a spider it dies, but if you cut off the leg of a Starfish, it grows another leg. Movements like Starfish flourish because there is no one leader, but a set of ideologies that many believe in. Mobility offered by a bicycle is efficient, economical, environmentally friendly and universal globally. Saving a portion of the 18 million bicycles destined for landfills in North America and Europe is a good thing. Doing good in one’s own community and linking that community to help do good a half a world away connects us in ways we cannot imagine.
My wife and I started bicycles for Humanity to simply send one container of bikes to healthcare workers in Namibia. Today there are literally hundreds of volunteers and leaders everywhere who share our vision and beliefs and all who have joined this movement have taken it a thousand times further than I could ever imagine. Would this viral growth happen in a structured NGO, don’t think so, too many rules and to much inefficiencies to attract high energy people. Can a highly structured NGO attract good people and keep them, by making them a small cog in their big machine, don’t think so, people want to make a difference and they want to do it their way.
Bicycles for Humanity and all within it resemble a Starfish and it keeps growing on it’s own. Many highly structured NGO’s are beginning to look like Spiders and by losing one individual, they can fail or become very inefficient.
In reflecting back on the last 6 years, it is simply incredible what has happened and I have no idea what the future will bring, but I know that it will be good on a hundred fronts and the gift of mobility that a bicycle can deliver will reach many many more communities globally.
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We have been asked time and again, why Bicycles for Humanity is not a Non Profit, who is it’s board, why it has never spent a cent on administration and why it will never have staff, and overhead of any kind. the answer is simple, we are a movement and really a philosophy. All within the Bicycles for Humanity movement believe that a bicycle can make a difference to so many globally. All withi the movement also believe that efficient models with accountability and empowerment forming the foundation to the chapter/community model allows all to drive it in the direction they feel best. Seth Godin in his blog today, summed it up nicely.
Organization vs. movement vs. philosophy
An organization uses structure and resources and power to make things happen. Organizations hire people, issue policies, buy things, erect buildings, earn market share and get things done. Your company is probably an organization.
A movement has an emotional heart. A movement might use an organization, but it can replace systems and people if they disappear. Movements are more likely to cause widespread change, and they require leaders, not managers. The internet, it turns out, is a movement, and every time someone tries to own it, they fail.
A philosophy can survive things that might wipe out a movement and that would decimate an organization. A philosophy can skip a generation or two. It is often interpreted, and is more likely to break into autonomous groups, to morph and split and then reunite. Industrialism was a philosophy.
The trouble kicks in when you think you have one and you actually have the other.
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A movement is a wonderful thing, it grows on all sides every day and everyone is doing the best they can to take it forward and the surprising thing is that it works. there is an ongoing debate out there between a movement and a non profit, our choice is movement, it is viral, it attracts incredible talent globally and it allows everyone to be the solution.
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The last 6 months I have been asking myself, what is next for the Bicycles for Humanity Movement. When we started it was to provide the gift of mobility offered by a bicycle to healthcare workers and women in Namibia. This program continue’s to grow and many chapters over the past year have started to spread their wings and enter new countries. This year, chapters entered and are building programs in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Malawi, Zambia and Rowanda. These chapters are searching for new communities to support and they are doing a terrific job. Our Chapter in Whistler in partnership with other chapters, Calgary, Saskatoon and hopefully others is now building a program in Uganda.
In 6 years we have gone from groups collecting bikes to support other organizations projects to chapters branching out and supporting their own projects in Africa and we hope this continue’s for many many years to come.
I think we are about to enter the 3rd phase of our growth and I believe the most important single step in our movement. Initially we grew in the developed world and supported the developing world. today we are seeing a trend towards groups in the developing world, Uganda, Swaziland wanting to form chapters and build community globally to support their respective countries and communities. As new grassroots groups in developing countries take hold, it will open up and grow our movement in ways we cannot yet imagine. new relationships with government, new partnering opportunities with corporations and industry groups. Individuals and groups that have a heart for a specific country can now get involved. As we grow in both worlds, developed and developing, we have the ability to help more in many new areas, yet, stay close to the initial belief’s of our movements grassroots . We are about to enter a wonderful era in the life of the Bicycles for Humanity Movement
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As a grassroots movement, we are not bound by fixed organizational structures. Every chapter is free to grow Bicycles for Humanity in whatever direction they feel is best for them and the communities they partner with. Together, B4H, Calgary, Whistler and Saskatoon have chosen to support the Karamoja Initiative and we hope other chapters join us on this exciting adventure. We are always open and excited to have new chapters join our movement and you are free to support whatever commnity your heart and desires tell you to. For more information on what we are doing in karamoja, you can link to the site by either the uganda link on the left of our home page or by going to www.karamoja-bicycle-initiative.org
thanks, we look forward to together helping more globally with the gift of mobility a bicycle can deliver
pat
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Monday at 9am and I only got 8 more hours until my final flight to Vancouver and then home. I’ve been in Africa a month reviewing Bicycles for Humanity existing and new projects in Namibia, South Africa and Uganda. This posting is a collection of thoughts on the trip and the various initiatives. I was great starting out in Namibia where the Bicycles for Humanity Initiative is well established thanks to the support from BEN, Bicycle Empowerment Network. In total I visited 7 projects and all appear to be operating fine. In Northern Namibia there is a lot of trading and commerce, with Angola being so close and the towns in this area are very commerce focused and the bicycles compliment this activity nicely. Bicycles for Humanity Chapters have done a terrific job supporting Michael in this area and with the infrastructure in place, hopefully many chapters will continue to support Namibia.
Bicycles for Humanity at it’s core is a grassroots movement, it is chapter led, entrepreneurial and it will always be this way. Many chapters have very strong desires to support areas other than Namibia. In 2010, we had chapters supporting Ghana, Malawi, Zambia , Searra Leon and South Africa. Frank Finneran who heads our Seattle chapter decided to ship his first container to a town called Ndumo. Frank in partnership with the Catholic Church established a BEC in the far north of South Africa , just below the Mozambique border. The community is a long way off the main road and the need for bicycles in this area is tremendous. I met with the board overseeing the project there , the mechanics and many in the community and in summary, Frank and the Seattle team did a terrific job.
Frank is the first chapter following the new Bicycles for Humanity model, chapters taking the initiative to establish the relationships in a new country. Building the infrastructure and support to manage the new projects and with the communications and relationships established it is very easy for other Chapters to directly support existing chapters who have entered new areas, keeping all grassroots on both sides, here and in Africa. Frank’s second BEC will be going to izulu Orphans Imitative in partnership with the local Rotary Club in Empangainy, SA and Seattle Washington. The project has a terrific team on the ground and with the support of both Rotary District Governors; it will be a huge success. Frank, thank you so very much for showing us how Bicycles for Humanity can grow at the grassroots level into new countries. What you have done is simply outstanding and I encourage any and all chapters to join in with Frank and the Seattle team, if South Africa is your calling. The Chapter led model is very different than how Bicycles for Humanity started, but I believe it is the future of our movement and I encourage all existing chapters and new chapters to support those projects that inspire you.
Next I flew into Kampala, Uganda to meet my friend Paul Sherwen and Thain Hundert from our Calgary Chapter. This was Thain’s first trip to Africa and Uganda is very very different from Namibia and South Africa. The purpose of our trip was to visit the Karamoja region of North Eastern Uganda with the goal of establishing our Bicycle Empowerment Model in this region. Before even going there, we met with government officials from the first Lady, Janet Museveni right down to the local government officials Florence Naduk and all are very supportive and will do all they can to help make this a huge success. Paul then set up meeting with many of the local major business’s to gain their support and that went extremely well. Paul also own a logistics company that services the emerging oil and gas industry in this region. In summary, we already have a solid base of partnerships and support in many ways very similar to Frank in Seattle. Paul as a child travelled to the Karmoja region and to this day, he loves the people and the region. From where the pavement stopped, we then proceeded on 200 km of single track dirt washed out in most places. There is no electricity to the region, and everyone is walking and walking very long distances. Best way to describe Karmoja is like going back several hundred years but the people are wonderful and the need for bikes is huge. Paul, Thain and I did a video of the region and the need, which hopefully will be posted in the next week. As the founder of Bicycles for Humanity, the Karamoja Bicycle Initiative may be the most important project we as a movement will ever work on. Women do all the work, they walk incredible distances with 100 plus pound loads on their heads. During the times of the wars, the men were killed first and in some communities, there are a few adults taking care of literally hundreds of orphans, and there are thousands of orphans in the region. In the coming weeks, we will be launching Bicycles for Humanity Uganda and specifically, the Karamoja Bicycle Initiative to hopefully try and bring 25,000 bikes here in the next 5 years. Hopefully some of the existing chapters will support this project, but the Whistler and Calgary chapters are prepared to build our chapter base by hundreds of chapters to get this job done. With Paul, the support of Government and the major corporations in Uganda we are off to a terrific start and I know for me, Karamoja will be where my energy will be focused, the need is simply so great and our ability to drive real change to close.
In summary it was a great trip, all aspects of Bicycle for Humanity appears to be working nicely and with chapters spreading their wings and entering new countries and building support and teams in the respective countries, it opens the door to B4H Chapters being able to support new countries and to work together with existing chapters to take on new initiatives. Over the next week, I will be posting more thoughts and pics, but wanted to share with all that the Bicycles for Humanity Grassroots Movement is heading in the right direction and the foundation is there to grow at an incredible pace.
Thanks
Pat
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The Birth of a Movement
5 years ago, my wife Brenda and I thought we would bring some bicycles to those in need in Mexico. Never in our wildest dreams did we think it would turn into the Bicycles for Humanity Movement, grassroots movement that has grow globally and continue’s to grow. Everyone understands the power of a bicycle and how it can help people travel further and do more with less. I’m in Africa visiting communities that have received BEC’s, Bicycle Empowerment Centres delivered by B4H chapters globally. To see orphans receiving a new bike, to see women getting goods to market and healthcare workers being able to do more is simply mind blowing. All within our movement who visit Africa, never come back the same, their lives are changed forever and many help community partners in a hundred ways, by sending books, sports equipment, tools and building supplies. If you asked Brenda or I, 5 years ago if this idea would become a global grassroots movement, we would have said no way, but it has and it continue’s to grow and it belongs to all, it is a movement, owned by all, supported by all and grounded in the same beliefs that the gift of mobility that a bicycle can deliver is a gift worth sharing.
In the developed world, we all have bicycles, we also all have computers, smart phones, ipads, netbooks and a host of other networked and connected devices. Like a bicycle we use these tools every day, check news, book tickets, buy goods, communicate with friends, study, communicate and stay in touch. Complimenting these tools are databases and specialty sights that support our every day needs, government databases, access to jobs and social programs, forms to be filled in and sent to apply for grants, support and aid. The internet and technology has become an every day part of our lives to the point where we take it for granted, just like the bicycle until we shared the story that everyone was walking in Africa and a bicycle was a game changer.
Rural communities in Africa, have no computers, little internet, the databases that support the people are not there. In any community, the local government has no idea who lives there, are the children with their parents, grandparents or aunts and uncles. Has one or both parents died of Aids, who do the children live with, who cares for them and who lobbies on their behalf for support that is there for them, but they and their caregivers are unable to access or to understand what is possible. For individuals and groups wanting to help in Africa, it is very difficult to get a handle on the problem, how many are orphans in a community, how many have parents, how many have healthcare problems, have they seen a doctor, have they been tested. I can go on and on, but you get the picture, we simply do not know and those caring for the children are too overworked and do not have the skills to lobby on behalf of the children. Kate and here team at iZulu , http://www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za/ changed all that forever by building a database that is current, real time and efficient. It is broken into many sections and it works and the difference it has made in one community is simply staggering. I encourage all of you from the bottom of my heart to support her efforts and to help her, help many globally who face the same problems here community faces. Every child and adult is known known, they are not unknown faces and stories, they are real people with a story to tell and Kate and her team know now who they are and what their needs are.
| Child Details | ||||
| Full name | ||||
| School name | ||||
| HIV pos | Grant | male | grade | |
| Birth Date | Birth Cert | female | report | failed |
| ID | Age | shoe size | academic potential | |
| HIV Tested | monthly visits | |||
| Mothers name | Picture of Child | |||
| Mothers death cert | homestead number | |||
| fathers name | Uniform ordered | |||
| Fathers death cert | Uniform Size | |||
| Sisters | Brothers | Notes | Foot Size | |
| Sisters | Brothers | History | Disabled | |
| Sisters | brothers | medical | school checklist | |
| fav subject | Tests | |||
| fav pastime | health | Notes | Risk Category | |
| Village Information | ||||
| Years Under Care | ||||
| Village information | ||||
| Homestead number | area | working | ||
| Number in homestead | religion | |||
| Number of children supported | extra people | |||
| Caregiver | history | |||
| Relationship | Picture of Family | |||
| Cell Number | gps | |||
| Food program | ||||
| monthly grant | salary | welfare | total income | pension number |
A movement begins when one person steps up and takes the first step, kate and her team have done that, I believe strongly in what she is doing and I am taking a step to join her team and help orphans globally. Every one of you with the technology, can join the iEmpowerment Movement. All of you who are part of teams working in and supporting communities in Africa can join in. Gather the data on your communities, find out what is available to the children, help them get registered, to find their birth certificates, to find their parents death certificates. Only through putting names, faces and a history of each child can we advocate and support them as a global community. Everyone reading this can help, by building databases, mapping communities, lobbying for doctors, dentists to visit these communities. With skype, video and messaging, finding doctors to talk and skype to nurse practitioners in the field. We have the technology just like we had it with Bicycles. A movement is born when many begin to understand the problem and find ways to help solve it. Today, globally we can with the technologies and with all that Kate and here team have done and continue to do, lets join here and lets learn from her actions and lets help all in the developed world. I am travelling in Africa, on my way to Uganda today, sitting in the airport, but already my mind is racing. Kate and http://www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za/ has set the model, it is efficient and good and I believe here passion and idea will become a movement. As a teck, telecom enthusiast I was blown away and will do everything I can to help. A movement begins when one and then another see the value and in their own way want to step up and make a difference. I believe the iEmpowerment Movement has started and it will grow and a lot of good will flow, thanks to the efforts of Kate and here team. I urge all of you to join the Bicycles for Humanity and the iEmpowerment movements, lets together change lives forever and the tools are there, bicycles and smartphones and everyone of us can make a difference.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead
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I’m 2 weeks into a trip to Namibia, South Africa and leaving today for Uganda to visit Bicycles for Humanity initiatives across all 2 countries. Bicycles for Humanity is a simple grassroots model, chapters here in the developed world collect bikes, organize fundraising events and then partner with community based groups in Africa helping all there with the simple gift of mobility that a bicycle can deliver. To date, we have distributed around 20,000 bicycles to 5 countries and they are used by healthcare workers to visit more people, by students having to walk long distances to school and by all community members to carry good to market and water home from wells. We all know that a bicycle can and does make a difference. Many of our community partners are Aids Action Groups and Orphanages who rely on the BEC, Bicycle Empowerment Centre as a lifeline to both mobility and income generation. Having visited many of our member partner communities, the view is always the same. Thousands of children, few parents, Grandmother and Aunts taking care of the children and small houses or huts made of wood, or concrete scattered all over the place. When talking to the partner groups, and asking them how many children there are, who takes care of them, who has aids,, who works, who is dying, who is receiving drugs, who is not and are al of these children taken care of, the answer is always the same, we don’t know. We are too busy taking care of them to really know what is going on and if all the kids are enrolled in school or not, if they have bought their uniform or not and if they are receiving all of the benefits available to them or not.
Two days ago, I was asked by Frank Finneran of our Seattle Chapter to visit a new partnership he was organizing with Fluvio Pace from Empangeni, South Africa. The project is called I Zulu Orphans Project www.izuluorphansproject
Kate and her team work with and care for 1200 orphans, help support 250 families, with everything from school uniforms to their health needs, food and gaining access to jobs and opportunity . The program is simply wonderful and it works. Kate comes from an IT background and has built a database and set of applications focused on accounting for everyone and knowing what is needed depending on the situation like the death of a caregiver or a parent dying of Aids. The program and process Kate has built is simply outstanding and for all who want to help orphans globally, my suggestion is to contact Kate, find out what she is doing and why it works. Start with supporting her initiative and then helping her take it further to help many.
With today’s technologies, smartphones, ipad’s, netbooks, the model can be replicated everywhere and volunteers globally can help communities get empowered and all of their people on a path to a better life for all. For years, I have said that a bicycle and a smartphone will be a game changer globally, well, I think we have found the other half, it is in Empangeni and it was built by the team at http://www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za/
I am a telecom fanatic and see the power of today’s networks and technologies in helping others. As a part of the Bicycles for Humanity Movement, I and thousands globally come together to help many with the gift of mobility. What Kate and the team here have done is simply outstanding on a hundred fronts and I encourage all who read this to take an interest and support her initiative and together we can combine the technology and the bicycle to help all to a better life. I have been around technology and startupsfor all of my working career. In 40 plus years of ding this type of work, I have never seen a better more focused application to help others and it has the potential to scale globally just like Bicycles for Humanity and so many other grassroots movements. We can all play a role in empowering others and helping orphans to a better life and it is within our reach, Kate has built it and it is easily portable to many platforms. Best of all volunteers globally can get involved and help out, visit communities and help them establish an I Zulu Empowerment Center. Have you church, Rotary Club or School partner with a community to help them really understand their needs and what needs to be done. Today, everyone can make a difference, Kate has shown us the way and I encourage every one of you to visit her website http://www.izuluorphanprojects.co.za/ and to ask, how each of you can help here help more Orphans
Thanks
Pat
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