Putting used bikes and sewing machines to good use
Bicycle Grand Total since 1991: 166,006
Sewing Machine Grand Total since 1999: 6,043
Schedule a Spring 2023 Collection
To schedule a collection for spring 2023, contact Alan Schultz, alan@p4p.org or (908) 399-8217. The fall 2022 collections are done. ( 🌐 Map)
Fall 2022 Newsletter
Here’s our latest newsletter: Fall 2022: HTML and PDF.
2022 Annual Report
Our 2022 fiscal year ran from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. We shipped 5 containers to 4 countries (Togo got two; Guatemala, Belize, and Rwanda got one each) plus 3 separate shipments of just sewing machines to Cameroon, Somalia, and Uganda. Total shipped in fiscal 2022: 2322 bikes and 514 sewing machines.
We have two new partners: Somalia(!) and Belize.
Read all about it in our 2022 Annual Report. For you fans of tax forms, here is our 2022 IRS Form 990.
FIDESMA #23
Our longest-active partner, FIDESMA in Guatemala, just got their 23rd container. Here’s a report.
Goodbye, 2022
We’re done with collections and shipments for 2022. We shipped three containers this fall:
- 455 bikes and 15 sewing machines to Guatemala
- 439 bikes and 100 sewing machines to Belize
- 391 bikes and 100 sewing machines to Togo
We also shipped 72 sewing machines to Somalia, our very first shipment to that country, and 72 sewing machines to Tanzania.
Here is our year-end solicitation letter. And here is our Fall 2022 Newsletter.
Happy Holidays!
Togo #7
We officially closed out our fall 2022 collection season with a shipment of 391 bikes and 100 sewing machines to DRVR in Togo. We are also excited to mention that this shipment includes our 6,000 sewing machine shipped and the 1,000th machine collected by the Green Mountain Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in Vermont.
Belize #2
November 5th, 2022: we shipped Belize container #2: 439 bikes and 100 sewing machines.
End of the Fall 2022 Collection Season
A strong end to the collection season: The always-reliable Newtown, PA, Rotary collected 151 bikes and 30 sewing machines. Then, these 2 amazing women planned and ran a first-time collection in Oneonta, NY, then drove down to our trailers to drop off 72 bikes and 29 sewing machines(!)
End of Fiscal Year 2022
In p4p fiscal year 2022, which ended on September 30th, we shipped 2332 bikes and 514 sewing machines. October 15, 2022: rousing start to the new fiscal year: we shipped Guatemala container #23: 455 bikes and 15 sewing machines.