Outside’s Gear Girl, Stephanie Pearson, highlighted the Kona AfricaBike as one of the “Best of Winter Gear” items. Noting the AfricaBike program’s aim to provide bikes to home healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa and how the AfricaBike is perfect as a commuter rig, the Gear Girl applaudes all the work that’s being done.
Ever wonder where exactly the Kona AfricaBike and Kona Basic Needs have been in Africa?
In an effort to bring the projects in Africa a little closer to home, we’ve created a Google map that highlights all of the places the AfricaBike project and Kona Basic Needs has made an impact since we began in 2006. Don’t worry, we won’t test you, just think of it as a complementary resource to our reports about, say, the handover in the Gamalahke Township, South Africa.
Not only does the map’s directory point you to the exact location of Orange Farm, South Africa, for example, but it also gives you a little background about the respective project and how many AfricaBikes were donated.
So check out the site HERE. Further updates will be made to the map throughout 2010.
MODSquad Cycles, the only bicycle shop in Harlem, will honor Black History Month by donating 10% of its February 2010 revenue to Kona AfricaBike and Project Rwanda. In support of the shop’s initiatives, Kona Bikes has offered to donate an AfricaBike for a raffle in which customers who purchase at least $10 at the store will be entered.
Owner Oyé Carr says, “AfricaBike combines capitalism with good works. For every two bikes purchased by Kona retailers, Kona donates a bike to an AIDS worker. Bikes are not just for sport. They are also a means of environmentalism and a source of social change.”
Kona would like to give a big shout out to MODSquad Cycles for reaching out to the Kona AfricaBike program and the global community this month. If you live in or around the area, stop in and enter the raffle to win an AfricaBike or check out the selection of AfricaBike t-shirts - where all process go to Kona Basic Needs.
