Sule says "Every day I come to work here I am so proud. When someone brings in a bike, I can fix it - every tool I need is here."

Potluck at 6:30, presentation at 7:00
at the BNB Hub, 284 Amory Street

Join us for an exciting reportback from Koforidua, Ghana by David Branigan, BNB's new International Programs Director. David will present a slideshow, video footage, and discussion of his 15 months working in partnership with the Emmanuel Yeboah Education Foundation and Sports Academy (EEFSA) to train 6 physically-challenged people to be bike mechanics and administrators. They've now registered Ability Bikes as Ghana's first cooperatively-owned and run bike shop. They are running a successful business, paying their own salaries, increasing respect for physically-challenged people and breaking stereotypes, while also greatly improving the bicycle infrastructure and thus affordable mobility in this city of 87,000 people.

Mirriam is challenging stereotypes, not only as a person disabled by polio working as a productive member of Koforidua, but also as a woman in the male-dominated field of mechanics.

Maude, Torsu, Mirriam, Sule, Julius, and Agyen thank you in the BNB community for giving them the opportunity to learn and work and change their lives while providing bike service to the city of Koforidua. Come get to know them as individuals in photos, video footage, and David's discussion. This is also a great time to get to know David Branigan in his new role directing BNB's International Programs, which he has taken over from Carl Kurz.

If you can bring some food for the potluck, please RSVP to jeremy@bikesnotbombs.org - not everyone should bring food, but we do need some more contributors! Potluck at 6:30, presentation starts at 7:00.

You can see more photos from Ability Bikes at http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnbghana/

Read David Branigan's blog from his time in Ghana at http://bikesnotbombs-eefsa.blogspot.com/