Ghanaian Bamboo Bikes Make Global Impact
Innovators in Ghana have taken to producing environment and economic-friendly bikes made out of native bamboo. Addressing the problems of climate change, poverty, rural-urban migration and high unemployment amongst the youth in rural Ghana, the initiative has created employment opportunities and sustainable livelihood job skills for the youth. These bikes are being both in Ghana and exported to foreign markets, making it a highly profitable business. A second generation of bamboo bikes have been released, which are suitable for the high terrain and rough roads that locals may need to travel through.
One of Winifred Selby's bamboo bikes.
Ghana Bamboo Bikes
One of Ghana’s Bamboo Frames For Bicycles Being Austria.
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Kenya:
Two Kenyans Among 12 Anzisha Prize for Young Entrepreneurs Finalists
CIO, 26 August 2014
Two Kenyans - Tom Osborn, founder of Greenchar and Martha Chumo, founder of Nairobi Developer School - are among the 12 Anzisha Prize for Young Entrepreneurs finalists, and are in… Read more »
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Ghana:
Riding Towards Sustainable Development, On Bamboo
IPS, 23 August 2012
In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to… Read more »
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Ghana:
Bamboo Bikes Initiative Wins International Award - at World Business and Development Awards
Ghanaian Chronicle, 28 June 2012
THE GHANA Bamboo Bikes Initiative is one of eleven award winners at the 2012 World Business and Development Awards (WBDA), for their efforts to improve living standards in some of… Read more »
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5 March 2014
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- Momentum for Change
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The Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative addresses climate change, poverty, rural-urban migration and youth unemployment by creating jobs for young people, ... see more »
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Zambia:
Zam Bikes Partners With German Company
Times of Zambia, 27 February 2012
ZAM BIKES, the company that manufactures bamboo-framed bicycles, has signed a five-year contract with Zuri of German following the successful penetration into the Japanese market. Read more »
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Zambia:
Bike Firm Signs Japan Export Deal
Times of Zambia, 17 February 2012
A ZAMBIAN social firm Zambike which manufactures bamboo - framed bicycles has signed an export deal with FIG bikes of Japan aimed at enhancing its export market and sustaining the… Read more »
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Ghana:
UNDP's Support to Bamboo Bike Yields Results in Ghana
UNDP, 18 December 2013
Produced as an innovative means to combat climate change, strong but light bamboo bikes using Ghana's locally grown bamboo are being used for multiple purposes in a variety of… Read more »