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Putting used bikes and sewing machines to good use

Bicycle Grand Total since 1991: 167,383

Sewing Machine Grand Total since 1999: 6,345


Our mission: To empower sustainable economic development by recycling bicycles and sewing machines from the U.S. and shipping them to motivated people in the developing world.


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Spring 2024 Collection Schedule

To schedule a collection forĀ  spring or fall 2024, contact Alan Schultz, alan@p4p.org or (908) 399-8217.


Unloading Albania #18, December 2023Albania: Unloading the Container

Check out this one-minute video of the unloading of the container we just sent to Albania: Absolute Bike Tirana #1, Albania #18.


Togo #8 loading, 9 December 2023Togo #8

The 2023 collection season ended on November 4th, but we had enough inventory to squeeze in a December 9th shipment: 496 bikes and 20 sewing machines to our partner in Togo, DRVR.


Kid in Albania waiting for a bikeAlbania

October 21st: we made our first shipment to our new partner in Albania, Absolute Bike Tirana: 450 bikes and 50 sewing machines. That’s our 18th shipment to that country. Good luck to our newest partner! Here’s a one-minute, fifty-second video of the work they do.


Uganda

On October 18th, we shipped 72 sewing machines to the Mityana Open Troop Foundation, our partner in Uganda. Here are the reports on their many educational programs.


Alan with 30 sewing machines bound for Sierra Leone, October 5th, 2023Sierra Leone

October 5th, 2023: we shipped 30 sewing machines to Village Care Initiatives Sierra Leone (VCISL), our partner just back on the active list. Our partnership with Sierra Leone stretches way back to 2009, when our filmmaker visited and made Cycle Recycle, a 10-minute video, and wrote this post about the country and the VCISL programs. Welcome back!


Loading Guatemala #24, 23 Sep 2023Guatemala #24

On 23 September 2023 we shipped container #24 to FIDESMA, our longest-active partner: 458 bicycles and 20 sewing machines. That makes a total of 12,492 bikes and 441 sewing machines we’ve shipped to Guatemala (!)


Henry HansenHenry Hansen

Sad news: Henry Hansen, one of our most tireless collectors, has passed away. Henry worked with the Rotary Club of Vineland, New Jersey, one of our longest-running collection partners. They are sponsoring a collection Saturday, October 21st, in Vineland. Here is a one-minute 45-second slide show of Henry and his Vineland Rotary colleagues at work.

Henry was one of the winners of our 2010 Pedal Wrench Award, an occasional award we give to outstanding volunteers. He is mentioned in several thank-you lists in annual reports and elsewhere. And this report on Albania Shipment #2 from May 2011 has a photo of Henry and some of the thousands of bikes he’s helped collect.

In November 2021, Alan met up with Henry and picked up a truckload of goodies. Here is Alan’s facebook post from that trip.

Here is Henry’s obituary.


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