Bicycles for Humanity Colorado delivers transportation to Africa in the form of donated bikes. 100% of B4H’s proceeds are used to ship donated bikes to rural towns in Africa where there is no means of transportation beyond walking. After donating bikes to mobile healthcare workers, the rest are sold from the retrofitted shipping container - turned local bike shop, providing a boost to the economy of the community.
B4H creates opportunities for African women by enabling transportation for commerce, healthcare and education. B4H also provides entrepreneurial opportunities by hiring and training women as bike mechanics and to manage the bike shops.
For people living on $2 per day, a bicycle is normally far beyond their reach. Most female heads of households lack transportation to access healthcare, economic and educational opportunities for their family. B4H is focused on opening up opportunities for women by giving them much needed transportation and the ability to help provide a better life for their families.
Free A Child and its partner organizations develop comprehensive anti-child prostitution and trafficking campaigns that provide appropriate solutions according to the unique cultural context they are working in. With programs in Nepal and Denver, free-a-child fights the serious global issue of child sex trafficking.
In Nepal, Free A Child and its partner agency, General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP), founded the Butterfly Project in May 2001 with the goal of reducing the risk of child trafficking for prostitution and the subsequent spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs in Nepal. Since its inception, the project has involved more than 350 girls living in highly trafficked areas in income generating projects and skills trainings and reached nearly 7,000 people with trafficking awareness messages.
In Denver, Free A Child used funds raised from the generous donors at Escape to Shangri La, their 2006 annual gala, launched a U.S. program in Colorado with their partners Urban Peak. This program provides street outreach, victim sevices, case management and much needed training to law enforcement agencies, homeless shelters, and emergency room personal, Free A Child and its partners are providing a community-based solution to a much overlooked problem.
For more information and also to continue supporting the important work of Free A Child visit their website at www.freeachild.org
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