Prelaunch bicycle workshop

On Saturday 13th of February the bicycle workshop in Kisumu Kenya was officially opened. The boda boda bicycle taxi community put in a lot of work for 2 weeks in renovating the place, just in time for the pre-launch. The same day global cyclist and ambassador of Cycling out of Poverty Frank van Rijn arrived at the site. A group of 100 boda boda bicycle taxi's, representatives of KLM and Cycling out of Poverty, Hon. Shakeer Shabir (MP of Kisumu Town East), and a marching band joined Frank in his ride to the workshop. Hon. Shakeer Shabir, Karen Blanken of KLM and Frank van Rijn unvieled the banner with the name of the workshop. The workshop is planned to be fully operational on the 1st of April.

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