Bikes for the World Sees Record-Setting Collection Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) May 1, 2009 -- Hagerstown, MD – Saturday, April 25th, Bikes for the World broke its organization’s previous record by collecting more bicycles at a single-site collection than ever before. The collection drive at the Otterbein Methodist Church brought in 391 bikes, which will be distributed to Goodwill Industries of Panama, Londor Enterprises in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and the Peace Corps in Liberia, and Fundacion Integral Campesina (FINCA Costa Rica). Upon arrival, these bicycles will be used as a means of transportation for work, school, and health services.

Over the course of the weekend, Bikes for the World received 735 bicycles from collection drives in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Its volunteers were crucial to the process, preparing bicycles and loading them into trucks for shipping overseas. The bicycles will be transported overseas beginning this weekend.

Bikes for the World is a nonprofit organization that rescues thousands of unwanted bicycles at community events throughout the lower mid-Atlantic region. The bikes are shipped to underprivileged communities overseas where they can transform lives by facilitating transportation to work, school, and health services. In 2008, Bikes for the World collected and donated more than 10,000 bicycles to non-profit programs in six countries in Africa and the Caribbean Basin.

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