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Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative, in collaboration with Bright Generation Community Foundation, has launched the African Bicycle Contribution (ABCF) and presented bicycles to pupils of Parkoso Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High School in the Asokore Mampong Municipality.
African Bicycle Contribution intends to buy bamboo bikes from Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative, as part of its activities to supply students, farmers and health workers, especially those in the rural or remote communities, to enhance their performance in the fields of their operations.
Mrs. Bernice Dapaah, Executive Director of Generation Community Foundation, explained at the launching that the presentation followed a serious correspondence with African Bicycles Contribution (ABCF).
According to her, as a part of a collaborative exercise, GBBI fully embraces the challenge to provide highly subsidised super-crafted bikes, designed to a high quality, in support of the programme.
She pledged to ensure continuous process improvement and quality control to deliver the best service to their target beneficiaries.
Mrs. Dapaah further revealed that the programme has a multiplier effect, not only for the beneficiaries, but also for GBBI.
She said the partnership will strengthen and build their institutional capacity, and result further in their employing more gifted hands to support their operations.
She said it is in line with the national goal to reduce unemployment, as they are open to transparent communication with all the partners, to achieve the target they have set.
The Executive Director disclosed that Bright Generation will play its role in promoting opportunities for technology-aided, direct communications between students and young entrepreneurs in the Kumasi Metropolis, and the city of Philadelphia in the United States, and function as programme coordinator in establishing appropriate Sister City relationships.
She said BGCF will continue to promote the efforts of ABCF in its work, to create the necessary motivation and win high-level support, as they cannot overemphasise the importance such support will mean for the continued success of the distribution programme.
Mr. Michael Attaogye, Metropolitan Co-ordinating Director, who represented Mr. John Alexander Ackon, Ashanti Regional Minister, commended the initiative and said the bikes would facilitate the movements of the beneficiary students.
Nana Amankwah Sarkodie, a representative of Otumfuo Osei II, the Asantehene, lauded the initiative for making Kumasi and the Ashanti Region their base of operations.
He entreated the management to embark upon planting their own materials if they want to make an impact, be vibrant and sustain the project, to enable them supply other countries to achieve their main objective of creating employment and reducing poverty, especially in the rural communities.
Madam Dzida Gomashie, Deputy Minister for Culture and Creative Arts, expressed her appreciation for the initiative, which, she said, will create an enabling environment for the children of school going age, most especially, in the rural communities, who walk from afar to access school.
She said the gesture would enhance their studies, as it would reduce the hours they take to get to school, and entreated the pupils to use the bicyclesfor their intended purpose of improving their studies, instead of using their time to watch movies.
Pix: The KMA Director presenting a bicycle to a beneficiary pupil
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