09 September 2010
Cycling out of Poverty started the platform www.wiki-bike.com, in cooperation with Slimmer foundation and Ideal&co. Via this platform, people are invited to share ideas on bicycle designs with others, inspiring each other. Via wiki-bike.com people can send in ideas for the African Bicycle Design Contest 2010-2011. The aim of this contest is to co-create a bicycle that is tuned to the needs of African bicycle users and can be made locally from local available sustainable materials. On Tuesday 7 September wiki-bike.com won the second price in the Sustainable Tuesday competition in The Hague. The jury chose wiki-bike.com from the more than 400 entries, because it is a good example of co-creation in practise. "Participation is open for everyone who has ideas on bicycles, not only designers: ideas can be submitted as sketches, photos or even poems. With the feedback of other visitors of the website, ideas and designs can be improved. Co-creation stimulates innovation and enthuses others. It also utilises the potential of social media fully. The final result contributes to sustainable mobility in developing countries, and also contributes to the social aspect of sustainability.
09 October 2009
On the 8th of October 2009 Vodafone Netherlands Foundation has announced the winners of the fifth World of Difference competition. A competition whereby 5 jobs can be won at development organisations: Plan, Dance4Life, Right to Play, Red Cross and “my project”. Luuk Eickmans won in the job in the category “my project” which is a salary for a year working for Cycling out of Poverty. They jury indicated that they had found the perfect combination in Luuk of idealism and commercialism. Luuk will be working for Cycling out of Poverty from 1st January 2010 from Uganda, for 50% for two years, financed by Vodafone. During this year he will support the African partner organisations of Cycling out of Poverty in exploring public private partnerships, to make the bicycle projects less dependent on foreign aid. For instance by creating advertising space for companies on bicycle taxis, the local organisations get revenue to make the bicycle projects self sustainable. Click on the film on the left to view the announcement of the winner.
11 November 2007
With straight A's of the jury and a majority of the audience, Cycling out of Poverty won the ‘Doener Award 2007’ on 10 November 2007. This award is an initiative of NCDO and Wild Geese, 2 organisations supporting small scale developing initiatives. From around 500 projects Wild Geese and NCSO are supporting this year, they have nominated 6 projects, to which 2 Awards were awarded. Cycling out of poverty won for best Action/PR. The price money of €2,500 will be spent on a bicycle project in Uganda.
The jury consisted of Marie Therese Meereboer (director of Partos), Ineke Bakker (director of OIKOS) and Ted van den Bergh (director of Triodos Foundation). They were unanimous that Cycling out of Poverty is well organised on all terrains. Especially the good approach (offer demand-driven support and make use of local partners), and the good exit-strategy (what happens if Cycling out of Poverty stops?), reach out to a new target group for fundraising (Dutch cyclists), a comprehensive website and fantastic "Goed Nieuws Krant" (good news paper) were convincing. With a score of 30 points of the jury, 3 times the maximum of 10, and the majority of votes of the audience, Cycling out of Poverty won the Doener Award for best Action/PR.
