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Bicycles change lives. You can help make it happen.

At the Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN), we've seen what a single bicycle can do.

It turns a two-hour walk to school into a twenty-minute ride. It gets a job seeker to an interview across town. It allows a community health worker to reach twice as many patients in a day.

For more than 20 years, we've been putting bicycles into the hands of people who need them most, and the impact is profound.

Whether you're an individual, a business or an organisation, there is a meaningful way for you to be part of this story.

Make a Financial Donation

Every rand you give goes directly into changing lives. Your donation helps us refurbish and distribute bicycles to children, workers and job seekers; deliver safe cycling and mechanic training; and advocate for safer streets and better cycling infrastructure across South Africa. No contribution is too small, and everyone makes a difference.

Donations qualify for a Section 18A Certificate so you can claim against your tax if in South Africa.

Donate a Bicycle

That bike gathering dust in your garage could change someone's life. We give every donated bicycle a second life and a new loved home, where it becomes far more than a means of transport. It becomes a child's route to education, a job seeker's path to opportunity, or a health worker's link to the patients who depend on them.

We accept bicycles in good condition at our drop-off location in Cape Town. Not sure if yours qualifies? Get in touch — we'd love to hear from you.

Donate cycling kit

That helmet you’re no longer using or those cycling shoes, shorts or bib could all go to an excellent cause and be given a second life.

We accept cycling accessories in good condition at our drop-off location in Cape Town. Not sure if yours qualifies? Get in touch — we'd love to hear from you.