[*BCM*] Ability Bikes Co-op, Ghana: BNB Presenation Friday

[jasmine laietmark]

   Ability Bikes Cooperative in GhanaA Multi-Media Presentation by David
Branigan, Bikes Not Bombs International Programs Director

*Friday, Nov 13 2009 – Potluck at 6:30, presentation at 7:00*
at the Bikes Not Bombs Hub, 284 Amory Street in Jamaica Plain

http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/locations

  Join us for an exciting report back from Koforidua, Ghana by David
Branigan, BNB's new International Programs Director. David will present a
slideshow, video footage, and discussion of his 15 months working in
partnership with the Emmanuel Yeboah Education Foundation and Sports Academy
(EEFSA) to train 6 physically-challenged people to be bike mechanics and
administrators.

They've now registered Ability Bikes as Ghana's first cooperatively-owned
and run bike shop. They are running a successful business, paying their own
salaries, increasing respect for physically-challenged people and breaking
stereotypes, while also greatly improving the bicycle infrastructure and
thus affordable mobility in this city of 87,000 people.

 This is also a great time to get to know David Branigan, who has taken over
the job of International Programs Director from Carl Kurz. Carl founded
Bikes Not Bombs and is now on a 2-year sabbatical after 25 years with Bikes
Not Bombs.

For full details on the event, visit http://www.bikesnotbombs.org/node/615


You can see more photos from Ability Bikes at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnbghana/ *
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Let us know if you can bring some food to share (not required, of course)
or have any questions by emailing arik at bikesnotbombs.org* or calling
617-522-022



-- 
Jasmine Laietmark
Director of Grassroots Fundraising and Events

www.bikesnotbombs.org
617-522-0222 x106


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http://www.weeklydig.com/digthis2009


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http://thephoenix.com/theBest/Boston/Life/LocalCause/#TOPCONTENT

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shopping, please go to GoodShop.com before heading to your favorite stores'
websites - BNB can receive a portion of the sale! $$$ CHA-CHING
PLUS
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gets a penny per search! It adds up!

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Bikes Not Bombs promotes bicycle technology as a concrete alternative to war
and environmental destruction. For 25 years, BNB has been a nexus of bike
recycling and community empowerment both in lower income neighborhoods of
Boston and in the nations of the Global South. BNB's programs involve young
people and adults in mutually respectful leadership development and
environmental stewardship, while recycling 6,000 bicycles annually.
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