On Sunday, April 11th, Bikes Not Bombs volunteers loaded a shipment of 502 bikes for the Village Bicycle Project in Ghana, which contained the 40,000th bike that BNB has shipped to international partners! (And we've saved many more used bikes from the landfill by reusing them in our youth programs and bike shop.) Thanks to all the volunteers that helped make this happen!

For the Village Bicycle Project, this shipment also marks a milestone as their 100th container of bicycles they have received (from BNB and other sources). At about 480 bikes per container that's 48,000 bikes, and with over 23 million people in Ghana, this works out to roughly 1 bike brought in per 497 people in the country - a huge impact! Requests from villages around Ghana are higher than ever and George Aidoo and Samson Ayine are busy traveling, leading workshops on bike maintenance, and selling bikes at subsidized prices to rural villagers who would not otherwise have a source of bicycles.