Carl Kurz Quotes (6 Quotes)

The point is to get the business up and running, so they have the option of staying local or continuing to buy and ship parts from the U.S.. The projects in Ghana recently paid to receive three containers of parts from the Bikes Not Bombs in the U.S.

Since all the bikes are donated to BNB in the U. S., we only charge the head of the business for the shipping costs and a 10 percent administration fee.

What's unique to Bikes Not Bombs is that it combines local and international efforts. It's about solidarity, bringing two worlds together.

Bikes have magic. I think bikes are one of the keys to human survival.

Sixty percent of the funds are from grassroots fundraising like the Bike-a-thon. We have 14,000 people in our database who have donated something, and we call and ask them to give again. They usually do.

Successes are successes and failures are failures we've definitely had our share of both, but we're reaching more donors and volunteers all the time.