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Happening Now: 88Bikes VILLAGES

Even as this year's PROJECT FOUR gets underway, we've started the work on 88Bikes VILLAGES for 2010, focused on small rural locations where our bikes can have a major impact. Give a bike to the VILLAGES project here. And stay up to date by becoming a fan of 88bikes on Facebook or Follow 88Bikes on Twitter.

Appreciation: Planeterra

The Planeterra Foundation is a non-profit organization with a long history of supporting communities through travellers' desire to give back, and they are giving back in a big way by supporting 88bikes Volunteer Travel and Logistics on some of our projects, including a recent bike ride to the ocean with children from the Palm Tree Orphanage in Cambodia. Visit their site to learn more at Planeterra.org

Happening Now: 88Bikes PROJECT FOUR

THANK YOU! Thanks to all our supporters, we raised 300 bikes for PROJECT4 well ahead of schedule. Dan and Jared leave on December 28th to start giving these bikes away. Visit the PROJECT FOUR page to see all the donors and follow us online to stay up to date.

There are 27 million slaves in the world today, many of them children. For kids rescued from slavery, their journey toward independence and healing is arduous. This year, 88bikes honors the heroism of these children by launching a multi-country endowment. In early 2010, 88bikes will travel to Ghana, India, Nepal and Vietnam, endowing orphanages, ashrams, centers and schools sheltering children rescued from human trafficking. The Moment of Happy will occur in January, 2010 at more than a dozen sites throughout the world. 300 children will receive a bicycle and the training to maintain it. 88bikes is partnering with Free the Slaves and Touch A Life, two non-profit organizations dedicated to the eradication of slavery. A bike is that magical vessel of freedom and fun, the rare tool as useful as it is enjoyable. For these children--as all children--a bike will provide joy, freedom and autonomy. A bike will help each child get to school and explore her world. At certain locations 88bikes will work to set up on-site bike shops and sponsor in-depth bike repair apprenticeships. Every kid should have a bike!

Happening Now: 88BikeShop PERU

88bikes returned to the Palm Tree Orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in August 2009 to fix up some of the bikes that we gave in 2006, and work with the children there on setting up a small bike repair shop. We presently have a volunteer in Huancayo, Peru, working on the early stages of our bikeshop project there. You can stay current on our work to maintain our projects by following our twitter feed, or you can support our efforts on all our projects by making a contribution to our endowment fund here.

Appreciation: Generous Support from KEEN Footwear!

Keen Footwear made matching donations for 88bikes donations made at InterBike this year, and has given shoes and other contributions to every 88bikes project since 2006. (Disclaimer: Dan, Jared, and Nick were all wearing keens before we started 88bikes, just because they are awesome shoes. So we have no problem suggesting that you get yourself a pair here!)