Water Pumps

Maya Pedal has recently made and installed 24 bicycle powered rope pumps in the area of San Marcos in the town of Sipacapa as well as one wet cornmeal grinder for making tortilla masa. They are also making improvements on their mini rope pump. Maya Pedal received a Bikes Not Bombs shipment of over 500 donated bicycles in June 2009.

If you are interested in pedal-powered technology, see our Appropriate Technology links page.

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BNB Bike Shipment

On May 11th 2009, Bikes Not Bombs volunteers loaded a shipment full of bicycle aid bound for the Maya Pedal organization in Guatemala. Maya Pedal puts some bikes back on the road but uses most to build "bici-maquinas" - pedal-powered machines for shelling corn, grinding grain, pumping well-water, blending aloe shampoos, and more.

It was a perfect turn-out and the day went well. We got 522 bikes inside that can. Plus, 60 more frames to weld into bici-maquinas, 50 boxes/bundles of parts, 70 pairs of wheels, 26 bundles of tires (109 kids bikes were 20" BMX and 77 were micros).

Eighteen of us also consumed lots of pizza, ate salad and drank Equal Exchange Coffee brewed by our friends at City Feed. Jon Allen, thanks for picking it up as you do every container loading.

Maya Pedal will be excited to receive this! Our friends in Chicago, Working Bikes, were also shipping to The Ability Bikes project in Koforidua Ghana today simultaneously.

It was a very tight packing. Some new packers were in the container, Nick, Alex, Sam, Charlie, and they learned packing skills and ....... other folks came for the first time, Liz invited her workplace colleague, Alex came for a second time from Cambridge School of Weston, Susan Redlich again a consistent source of support ... a lot of great vibes were present and thank you all once again, including you who I didn't mention!