Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes in Ghana
Bikes are being made with
plants. Founder of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative – Bernice Dapaah says, we are
harvesting bamboo of production and we have all the components. When you look
at the seat tube, all the sized that we want we can get it from the bamboo. The
frame is complete recyclable, and for each bamboo plant used, the team plants
ten more.
Bernice Dapaah is changing the
face of transport in Ghana, by making bike out of bamboo. When I was in the
college, I decided to see how best I can do something after school, especially
using our local raw materials to do. Bernice is making a green from of
transport even more eco-friendly. She already has trained and employed more
than 35 young people, some of them disabled.
They are doing nice with nice
designs like custoem made bikes. They write fancy names, very attractive names.
Wbe are creating employment for them, so we are so happy about the social
impact that the bamboo bike is making. The income is not only benefitting her
employees. She is donating bikes to the local community. The idea of we even
going backl, donating bicycle for kids that walk miles from their home though
the bamboo bike production is really amazing.
How ingenious! Lightweight,
renewable, non-polluting, community based. All wonderful outcomes from a single
simple idea. Well done! We should encourage more people like this lady
throughout the world instead of the exploitative, polluting multi nationals who
are tax evaders. She may not be on a history book, she might not be a billionaire
of a brand everyone knows, but she's making a change in her community, she's
doing the best she can with the things in her surroundings, she's being successful
and loving of her work. I'd love to be someone like this in the near future.
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