NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for the weekend of February 23rd and 24th, but was rescheduled due to snow.

Saturday March 1st
10:30 - 3:30

Bikes Not Bombs will be shipping to the Village Bicycle Project (VBP) in Ghana. We start at 10:30 am and work until we finish, which we expect to be around 3:30pm. We'll take a break around 1pm for a pizza lunch (provided) and a short talk about the project. Volunteers can come for any part of this time that works for you. Experience not required.

Dave Peckham, founder of the VBP who some of you met when he visited here at the beginning of November, writes from Ghana: "I've been in Golokuati, where we've been doing programs, Earn-A-Bike etc, for five years. We did an 'advanced class’ follow-up program recently, in a village we’d brought bikes to in 02 and 03. It was exciting to see those Murrays and Huffys still in use, cranks, derailleurs, and tires changed out, mud guards, carriers and lights added. One of them still had an original tube, after five years!"

For more information on the Village Bicycle Project, see http://www.pcei.org/vbp/

DIRECTIONS:
This event does NOT happen at Bikes Not Bombs. We will be loading from a big parking lot at 179 Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, 2 blocks from the StonyBrook T stop on the Orange Line. Coming from the NEW BNB at 284 Amory Street, turn right on Amory (which puts you travelling away from the Green St T stop, towards the StoneyBrook T stop). Turn right on Boylston Street (where the StoneyBrook T stop is on your left) and then turn right into a large parking lot which is part of the Brewery Complex. You'll see our 40 ft. shipping container parked in this lot, just off the street.