Bikes Not Bombs Ability Bike Potluck!

Written by Boston Biker on Nov 10

Got this in the email, looks like a really fun time you should check it out!

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Ability Bikes Cooperative in Ghana
A 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/

Let us know if you can bring some food to share (not required, of course) or have any questions by emailing arik@bikesnotbombs.org or calling 617-522-022

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