From jake.or.benjamin at gmail.com Wed Nov 2 17:51:30 2016 From: jake.or.benjamin at gmail.com (Jake Benjamin) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 12:51:30 -0500 Subject: [Bikecoop-announce] Bike Shipping Party! Message-ID: All, Join us Friday November 4th at 10am for a big event loading old, unwanted bikes in a shipping container bound for Tanzania! We will meet at the bike warehouse at 192 S. Wright Street ext., Champaign, IL 61820. A little about the organizations efforts we will be helping: "Many students near Tarangire National Park in northeastern Tanzania walk long distances to attend Gijedabung and Mwikantsi Primary Schools. Even more challenging still for graduating students is the journey to secondary school, a difficult walk of over 10 kilometers on hot, dusty roads. By providing these students with bicycles, the time to get to and from school is reduced significantly. This leads to higher enrollment and attendance rates, higher graduation rates, and increased safety for the students making the trip. In addition to positively impacting the lives of students and their educational achievements, bikes in the hands of Tanzanian health care workers allow them to reach more patients and help them carry out campaigns to educate about and test for HIV in the region." There will be pizza provided at lunch time! Stop by the campus bike center or call 217 300 4638 for more information! - Jake Campus Bike Center Manager -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: