September 2020 – Many thanks to Joey Gordon for sharing her project photographs with us. Joey is a 2nd year Visual Communication Design Student at Red and Yellow Creative School of Business in Cape Town. The brief of the project entailed Joey to document the story of a South African Company/Organisation building a better future. Thank you for choosing BEN as your project Joey. We hope you receive top marks!
Happy 83rd Birthday to Louis de Waal.
Louis, steaming ahead strongly, who has done so many different things in his life, ranging from family man, civil engineer, rugby player, cyclist, the Table Mountain man, the leader of numerous civic and sporting bodies and most importantly to us, our Chairman and Founder of Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN).
Louis, always cheerful, enthusiastic, encouraging, with a sense of always caring for those around him.
Well done, Louis. You’ve been and remain a role model for many to follow and admire.
We wish you the happiest of birthdays and look forward to celebrating with you soon.
Many thanks to Re~Cycle UK for our container load of used bicycles. We were beyond excited to receive them on Monday, 4th November 2019. Our warehouse is packed and we itching to get the bicycles out into the communities. Thanks so much Re~Cycle UK – you have no idea how much these bicycles change peoples lives. Special thanks must go out to all the donors and volunteers who work so hard to get these bicycles to us. You guys are just amazing! Thank you
5th September 2019 – Many happy faces at Usasazo High School in Khayelitsha as 100 more learners received Qhubeka bicycles on the “learn-to-earn” programme. Bicycles were sponsored by Brietling. Qhubeka Charity Pedal Power Association Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN)
Bike4All team arrived at Chameti High School in Ka-Mushiyani, Limpopo to teach safe cycling on 12 August 2019. We were welcomed to find a fleet of Qhubeka bicycles neatly parked at the school, which were handed to the learners at the beginning of August. We drove through the rural areas to get to the school and it was so comforting to know that these learners no longer have to walk to school and can enjoy their new mode of transport – CYCLING. What a pleasure for us to share safe cycling with these well deserved Qhubeka “learn-to-earn” beneficiaries. Safe Cycling Chameti High School! Qhubeka Charity Pedal Power Association Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN)
22 July 2019 – BEN wishes our founder of BEN, Louis de Waal a very happy 82nd Birthday! We are so proud of all you have done, not only for BEN, but for everything else you have accomplished in your life. A true gentleman who we all look up to.
18 July 2019 – Mandela Day came to BEN this year! A HUGE thank you to Mike, Bonny, Vanita & Team from Green Route Africa who came to our offices and painted this morning. You guys were just awesome and we so enjoyed the fun “gees”. Madiba would be proud of you all. THANK YOU!
12 July 2019 – Super proud to be part of this amazing initiative. Starting with Pedals for Peace supplying bicycles for rental at Afrikaburn, with a “hand me back” concept to enable 250 bicycles to be handed over to the community – what better community than the Ceres Witzenberg community. 12 Schools, in and around Ceres, received bicycles today. So well organized with partners CBI : Ceres Sakekamer Western Cape Government Qhubeka Charity Bike4All Pedal Power Association. What a great distribution!
Re-Cycle UK DELIVERS AGAIN! We are jumping with joy as BEN receives another container of “previously loved” bicycles. Thank you Re-Cycle UK!!! Time to get these bicycles new homes!
Without the generous donation of previously used bicycles we would not be able to contribute towards improving mobility in South Africa. Receiving these bicycles change peoples lives. Many people have to walk kilometers to school and work, taking strain on their already challenging lives. The use of a bicycle can elevate this stress. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners Tools to Work, based in Teteringen, Netherlands for our shipment of 120 bicycles we received on 13th June 2019. THANK YOU
