Ghana Bikes Project in the Cornell Chronicle!

Publicity just keeps coming our way. My dear friend and housemate Jill McCoy wrote a lovely article about Liz and my "Scrap Metal to Ghana Pedal" Project.
Check it out here.

"Old, rusty bikes sitting in the garage after years of disrepair or disuse are often sent to the junkyard, drifting into oblivion or piling up into scrap metal. But Cornell students Anne-Lise Cossart '09 and Liz Bageant '10 are shifting this paradigm by collecting and shipping used bikes to Ghana.

Jill McCoy

Anne-Lise Cossart '09, standing, and Liz Bageant '10 prepare bikes they have collected to be shipped to Ghana.

Once in Accra, Ghana's capital, the bikes will be refurbished and sold at low prices to African villagers.

"We look at these bikes and think they are rusty or dirty, but [in Ghana] they definitely get used," said Bageant, a development sociology major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences..."