Is there anyone sending bicycle's to 3rd world countries?

NeVeR · 07-07-2008 10:58am #1

Hi all,
1st sorry for posting here. I didnt know where else to post.

My friend in work was wondering if there was anyone/company/ charity sending Bicycles to 3rd world countries... he has a good few old ones and doenst really want to throw them out.. and he's always looking to help people. So he was wanting to send them to people that could use them etc...

Does anyone know a charity or something like that, that might be doing this.

Steve_o · 07-07-2008 11:01am

Not sure, contact Bóthar or any of the charities and they'll point you in the right direction.

NeVeR · 08-07-2008 7:17am

I'll get him to check with them

thanks.

if anyone knows anyone else please let me know.

cormie · 08-07-2008 7:24am

I a similar query and the consensus was something like this would be too big to ship over so perhaps it would be better to bring to a local charity shop for them to sell? Or he could put an add up on adverts.ie with them and look for a donation to a charity to be made by anyone who is to pick one up off him.

This is a quote of mine from Jumbletown.ie (which is a good place to give away things for free) of a way to involve the charity:

I was offering items yesterday that somebody wanted posted and instead of them paying me for postage, I'll be taking care of postage and all I asked in return was that they make a donation by credit card (not sure if they accept laser?) of at least €5 to http://www.animalcaresociety.ie/store/donate.htm

So they made the donation (of €10!! ) and forwarded the donation confirmation that they received after donating, to my email address which I PM'd them. This included their name and address which I can post the items to.

No credit card information is in the donation confirmation so nothing to worry about there!

There might be a good bit of interest in the cycling forum for the bikes. I may even be interested myself

Is there anyone sending bicycle's to 3rd world countries?

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