Video - Bikes For Rwanda Coffee Coop

By Larry Lagarde

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Here's a video demonstrating how bicycles can improve lives by lifting people out of poverty. A Pacific Northwest coffee shop purchases a fleet of custom built bikes, ships them to Africa, then sells them to individual coffee growers in a coop in Rwanda. The growers pay a nominal fee to purchase the bikes, paying in small installments over time with coffee beans rather than cash...



Larry

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Originally published in the RideTHISbike archive.