Pedals for Progress

We just published the Fall 2024 Newsletter. Check it out: p4p.org/fall-2024-news…

170,000 bikes! November 23, 2024: Today we loaded 436 bikes and 30 sewing machines bound for Absolute Bikes Tirana, our partner in Albania. That makes 170,033 bikes shipped since 1991. Congratulations P4P, and thousands of donors and volunteers!

We've been in a drought, so we can use rain, snow, whatever. But did we really have to get the first snow of the season on our first two-truck unloading?!?

We just shipped container #5 to our partner in Belize: 440 bikes and 30 sewing machines. Still more bikes to be shipped this year.

Four-minute video from our partner in Belize: built a home, furnished a sewing machine to a single mother: facebook.com/share/v/1FDFDZ…

Thanks to the Pilgrim Presbyterian Church in Phillipsburg: 21 bikes, 4 sewing machines, and some very shady looking characters.

P4P collection October 29th, Watchung Farmers Market at Best Lake Parking Lot, 3pm to 7pm

Oct 5, 2024: Westfield Rotary collected 80 bikes and 10 sewing machines. Thanks! Here's the news: tapinto.net/towns/westfiel…

September 28, 2024: shipped 460 bikes and 25 sewing machines to FIDESMA, our partner in Guatemala. p4p.org/category/guate…

Just arrived in Sierra Leone: those 455 bikes and 65 sewing machines we shipped in July. More info: p4p.org/new-partner-20…

Thanks to the Doylestown PA Methodist Church: 28 bikes, 12 sewing machines. Great group of volunteers.

One-minute forty-second news video on the P4P collection run by the Vermont Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, where they collected their 5000th bike since 1999: mynbc5.com/article/pedals…

First collection for fall 2024: 71 bikes (!) and 13 sewing machines from the East Stroudsburg Rotary and Smithfield’s Rotary — with a clown Rotarian!!

P4P is at the Long Valley Fireworks and Green Festival

Here is the P4P page at Charity Navigator: Full credit! charitynavigator.org/ein/223122003

Summer 2024 newsletter is up: p4p.org/summer-2024-ne…

July 13, 2024: 455 bikes and 65 sewing machines on their way to Sierra Leone. facebook.com/p/Kola-Nut-Pro…

Here's the Summer 2024 Newsletter, including a post about our newest partner, Kola Nut Producers Association in Sierra Leone p4p.org/summer-2024-ne… Here's a photo from a class in their Slow Food program fondazioneslowfood.com/wp-content/upl…

Saint Joseph's Church, High Bridge: 25 bikes and 6 sewing machines. ready to ship to our new partner in Sierra Leone.

2024 June 1st: Faith Lutheran Church, New Providence: 64 bikes and 13 sewing machines. Thanks, all.