On Saturday April 11th Bikes Not Bombs volunteers will load a 40' shipping container full of bicycle aid to the Global Alliance for Africa's Vijana Center in Tanzania. We start at 10:30 am and work until we finish, which we expect to be 3:30 or 4:00pm. We'll take a break around 1pm for a pizza lunch (provided) and a short talk about the project. Volunteers can come for any part of this time that works for you. Experience not required. We'll be moving, sorting, and loading bikes, wheels, and spare parts. You may wish to bring work gloves.

This loading happens RAIN or SHINE!
We do expect some rain on Saturday, and it should be cold. But we back the container truck up close to warehouse door, and we'll cover most of the short space between the warehouse and truck with a tarp to keep dry. Dress warmly, bring some gloves and bring raingear. We do need help to make this happen!

Shaibu (right) shares his knowledge with BNB youth during a visit to Bikes Not Bombs in Boston. Shaibu is the bike shop manager at the Vijana Center vocational training school in Tanzania, where he was originally one of the first students to graduate. The bike shop, using donated bikes we'll be sending, provides 90% of the funding to run the entire school which each year serves 200 youth orphaned by the AIDS epidemic.


DIRECTIONS:
This event will NOT happen at Bikes Not Bombs, but is just around the corner. We will be loading from a big parking lot at 179 Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, 2 blocks from the StonyBrook T stop on the Orange Line. Coming from the BNB HUB at 284 Amory Street, turn right on Amory. At the first traffic light turn right on Boylston Street (where the StonyBrook T stop is on your left) and then turn right into a large parking lot which is part of the Brewery Complex. You'll see our 40 ft. shipping container parked in this lot, just off the street.