Collecting used bikes for South Africa
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| Garth Friesen |
On January 17, Cypress Creek Rotarian Garth Friesen will address the Coconut Grove Rotary about his club’s initiative to collect used bikes and ship them to South Africa. The club has sent 800 bikes in the last two years and another shipment is scheduled for this month.
Friesen is CEO at III Capital an investment management firm. A native of Canada, he has been in the finance industry for 25 years in London and New York, and he has lived in South Florida for the past 18 years.
The Rotary Club of Coconut Grove meets every Thursday at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club, 2990 South Bayshore Drive at 12:30 pm. The cost of the meeting is $25 with lunch or $10 without lunch. Open to the public.
Even if you don't get to the luncheon and have a bicycle or two you would like to donate, you can do that by contacting the Rotary at RotaryClubofCoconutGrove@gmail.com.
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3 Comments:
Free junk line the roadways of most African nations. Cheap bearings and frames, mostly from China cannot withstand the potholes/terrane of South African's carrying heavy weights on roads where most farmers and the poor live. However, a few entrepreneur's created an infrastructure to deal with this multimillion dollars problem and have created an entire industry to rebuild these junk bikes to deal with this issue and offer about $140.00, per bicycle. So, a thousand bikes is worth $140,000.00 plus an additional $10.00, to $25,00 is a nice side line profit.
Can we ship our weekend road warrior cyclists (with their associated lycra and aerodynamic water bottles) along with the bikes?
it always kills me to read about shipping things many thousands of miles away, usually after a natural disaster or calamity where all kinds of useless garbage is shipped at huge cost of fuel and manpower to load and unload
there are hundreds of thousands of secondhand bikes in the wealthy communities of Durban, Joberg and Capetown, etc that can be easily supplied to the population in need and its just better to collect funds and coordination with those first-world consumer cities to get the bikes within a few hundred miles of the need
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