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BSPW
PO Box 1537
Jinja, Uganda

+256 77 620312
+256 43 121322
Contact - Germany

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Thankirchen 3
83623 Dietramszell

+49 8027 180826
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Bicycle Sponsorship Project & Workshop

A history of an excellent performance...

The organisation BSPW started 1990 as a small skill-training workshop in a children's home called St. Moses at the Shores of Lake Victoria. The workshop was designed to give the boys of the home the necessary skills for repairing and maintaining the local common type of bicycle, the indian made brands like Hero, Roadmaster or Jupiter.

The idea for the initiative was brought by two Germans, one a student, one a Social-Worker. Within five months they set up the workshop as a small annex of a car-port in the compound of the Orphanage St. Moses, started training the boys how to assemble CKD (completely knocked down) bicycles, bought from the importers.

But by the time the wazungu had to leave, there was no one really interested in overtaking the responsibility of the small workshop as it turned out, that the workshop can not be run with the assembling and sale of bicycles.

Unfortunately the number of customers was too small to keep the thing going.

After one and a half years, a smart boy of the home decided to take up the workshop as he saw a future in BICYCLE-SPONSORSHIP, a system the two returnees introduced in Germany as they witnessed the lack of access to bicycles.

The growing of the initiative made it necessary to have extensive stores, so it had to shift from the compound of the children's home to a new workshop close to Nile Breweries near Jinja.

Framing developments

A) Capacity building workshops for beneficiaries

In the meantime, the internal development of the organisation showed, that capacity-building workshops have to be provided for the recipients of the bicycles. Women were identified as the main target-group for bikes. It was necessary to brief them in maintenance of their new bicycle as well as suggesting what they could do in terms of income-generating activities.

B) Staff qualification and development

The staff of BSPW went for further qualification with international agencies in order to get ideas of professional management of the grown BSPW.

Yet, the responsibility is with the Ugandans who work at BSPW. They are a staff of eight people, plus hiring a number of bicycle-mechanics temporarily.

C) PABIC (First Pan-African Bicycle Conference) and it's achievements
last changed: 03.08.2007