World Bicycle Relief was started in 2005 to meet the relief needs of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Founders, F.K. Day and Leah Missbach Day, partnered with aid organizations on the ground in Sri Lanka to distribute over 24,000 bicycles to aid the rebuilding of lives by providing access to education and healthcare. WBR was eventually approached by aid organizations to assist volunteer health programs in sub saharan Zambia, where WBR provided bikes to healthcare workers and trained mechanics to maintain and repair bikes as well.
We’re going to be at the Iowa Bike Expo 2013 in Des Moines, IA on January 26, 2013, where we’ll be partnering with Bike World to equip Iowans (and Ragbrai riders!) with brand new Po Campo bags.
Not only did I get to travel to sunny Long Beach, CA for the National Women’s Bicycling Summit but I also got to be speaker in the “Media & Marketing: Who’s Selling Cycling to Women?” breakout session, along with Susi Wunsch of Velojoy, Mia Kahout of Momentum Magazine, Elly Blue of Taking the Lane. I titled my talk “Why We Bike”, and this is what I said: Read More →
This weekend, Chicago was the blessed host of New Belgium brewery’s Tour de Fat, a “Pedal Powered FUNdraiser of Sustainable Folly” and a “Ballyhoo of Bikes and Beer”. Pretty intriguing, no?
