JACKSON, Wyo. — Jackson residents doing some spring cleaning have the opportunity to make a life-changing difference to female business owners in Uganda by donating a used bike.
On May 12 and 13, in association with the Bike Swap, The Hub Bicycles will be collecting used bikes to establish a new Women’s Bicycle Enterprise. This initiative is on behalf of Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy (AKP) and with the support of the JH cycling community, the Presbyterian Church of Jackson Hole, St. John’s Episcopal Church and many other local businesses.
This will be the seventh women-owned bike shop established by the AKP Bike Shop Program, including two in Tanzania, two in Zambia and one each in Botswana, Uganda and Jordan. The first in Uganda, the Bwindi Women’s Bicycle Enterprise, currently employs six local women.
Every bike shop begins with used, donated bikes collected and shipped from the U.S. The shipping container itself is then converted into a physical bike shop. Five women from a rural village bordering a protected area are selected to go through an extensive training program to teach them business skills and how to be bike mechanics.
Check out the Chipego Bike Shop and how it’s changed women’s lives below:
This spring’s bike collection in Jackson, Wyoming, will go toward establishing a second woman-owned bike shop on the Western edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda. Shipping and training are paid for by the AKP Bike Shop Program.
Mountain bikes are preferred, and please no children’s bikes. Simply deliver your used bike in the ally behind The Hub Bicycles, located on Pearl Street, on May 12 or 13 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Learn more about the Jackson Hole Bike Collection for Uganda here.
