07.13.10 | Taipei Taiwan: Giant Bike Donates 102 Bikes to Ecotour Program

07.13.10 | Taipei Taiwan – OVF and 10 National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) International Volunteer students secured a donation of 102 used Giant bicycles. Giant is a leading global manufacturer of high quality mountain and conventional street bikes.

OVF's Joy Tang with NTHU student celebrating donation of 102 Giant Bikes for Ecotour Program

The bikes will be shipped to Ghana on July 29 using a shipping container and will be incorporated into a new effort in Ghana called Bike Ghana.

The bikes deployed through the Bike Ghana effort initiated by OVF and with the help of the students will be used to assist workers many of whom are engaged in agricultural production in Ghana and have limited transport options. We believe that the introduction of bicycles will help residents improve the efficiency of agricultural transport, while also promoting Taiwan’s reputation to make and distribute reliable and useful products.

The donation was made possible through the executive director of Giant Bicycle’s Foundation/NGO arm/ UMC executive director Liu Lizhu. The bikes were originally leased to a water park where they were rented to customers. A certain percentage of these vehicles are replaced each year, but that they are still very good and indeed almost new condition.

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