Repairing bicycles for Africa, Winterthur
About the event
Recycled bicycles from Switzerland combine social and professional integration in Switzerland with sustainable development cooperation in Africa.
With your help, we can export additional bikes to the south, train more bike mechanics, and get students cycling.
Your task will be:
Together with participants in the WTL 2Rad program, you will prepare donated bicycles for export to Africa. Is the bicycle in working order? Do minor repairs need to be made? How can I prepare it for export in the most space-efficient way possible? You will learn all this during the assignment and get hands-on experience.
Velafrica has been collecting discarded bicycles since 1993, repairing them, and shipping them to Africa. Every year, over 20,000 bikes make their way to the southern hemisphere, where they make life easier for people there. In addition to promoting mobility, Velafrica supports the establishment of bicycle workshops and the training of mechanics. This creates jobs and income opportunities in bicycle assembly, repair, and distribution. In Switzerland, Velafrica works with social institutions that employ unemployed people and people with disabilities, as well as institutions involved in the enforcement of measures. In this way, integration work is successfully combined with development cooperation.
Program
9:00 Welcome / General Introduction
From 9:30 Assignment in the Export Workshop
Getting to know each other
Hands-on training in pairs on a bicycle
Training: Bicycle Repair
Training: Proper Bicycle Disassembly for Export
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:30 Bicycle Repair and Disassembly
15:30 Feedback
4:00 p.m. Conclusion
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Location:
- Brühlgut Foundation Bicycle Workshop, Klosterstrasse 17, 8406 Winterthur
Arrival:
- Accessible by bus or via Winterthur Töss train station.
- Travel by car is not permitted (exceptions may be requested via the comment section when registering).
Participants are responsible for their own travel to and from the meeting point. Travel expenses to and from the event location are to be covered by the participants themselves.
Contact on the day of the event:
Brühlgut Foundation, Bicycle Workshop
Daniel Sommer (Team Leader, Bicycle Workshop)
Email: daniel.sommer@bruehlgut.ch
Phone: +41 52 208 13 41
For any questions in advance, please use the question function at the end of the event description.
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