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Help Send Bikes To Nevis Island
Written by Boston Biker on Mar 02Another awesome Bikes Not Bombs event:
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HELP SEND BIKES TO NEVIS ISLAND
Saturday April 4th
On Saturday April 4th Bikes Not Bombs volunteers will load a 40′ shipping container full of bicycle aid for the Bikes Not Bombs Earn-A-Bike program on Nevis Island in the Caribbean. We start at 10:30 am and work until we finish, which we expect to be 3:30 or 4:00pm. We’ll take a break around 1pm for a pizza lunch (provided) and a short talk about the project. Volunteers can come for any part of this time that works for you. Experience not required. We’ll be moving, sorting, and loading bikes, wheels, and spare parts. You may wish to bring work gloves.
Bikes Not Bombs established this youth program in Nevis in 2007, using the shipping container of the bikes to create a building to house the workshop. Youth groups from 6 different towns have been using the workshop, and these groups are hoping for expansion so they can have their own hometown program. Two of the youth trainers at the program are currently applying for visas so they can visit Bikes Not Bombs in Boston for 3 weeks, learning and sharing in our youth programs here, and taking this knowledge back to expand their programs.
SAVE THE DATE: Wednesday April 1st! (pending visas)
Presentation from visiting Nevis Earn-A-Bike trainers, about the Bikes Not Bombs youth program there. Also a talk by Carl Kurz on his visit to the BNB partner project in Tanzania.
DIRECTIONS:
This event does NOT happen at Bikes Not Bombs, but is just around the corner. We will be loading from a big parking lot at 179 Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, 2 blocks from the StonyBrook T stop on the Orange Line. Coming from the BNB HUB at 284 Amory Street, turn right on Amory (which puts you travelling away from the Green St T stop, towards the StoneyBrook T stop). Turn right on Boylston Street (where the StonyBrook T stop is on your left) and then turn right into a large parking lot which is part of the Brewery Complex. You’ll see our 40 ft. shipping container parked in this lot, just off the street.
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