Bike Collection for Bikes Not Bombs

Bicycle
Collection for Community Development at Home and Abroad

A bicycle collection for Bikes
Not Bombs will take place on Saturday, April 12, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. – 3:00
p.m. at the First Parish of Watertown, Unitarian Universalist, 35 Church St.,
Watertown.

Bikes Not Bombs is a Jamaica
Plain based non-profit organization working for environmental sustainability
and community development. They provide training for inner city youth in
bicycle mechanics, business skills, and community leadership. They also operate
a full service bike shop where refurbished bicycles are sold at affordable
prices.

Bikes Not Bombs works both
locally and internationally to promote peace and social justice.  Over the years they have shipped more
than 50,000 bikes to community bike projects in over 13 nations in the
developing world, including Ghana, Northern Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania,
Central America and the Caribbean. 
They also send technicians and tools to these countries for start up
projects in micro-enterprise bike businesses, sustainable technology projects
and youth training programs For the working poor in developing countries, bikes
are an inexpensive means of transportation and provide essential access to
school, to work, and to market.

Help Bikes Not Bombs achieve its
mission of working towards sustainable transportation and community development
by donating your used bike in reparable condition.  A monetary contribution of $5 per bike is requested to help
defray the cost of overseas shipping.

The drive is sponsored by the
World in Watertown, the First Parish of Watertown, the Belmont Watertown United
Methodist Church and Watertown Savings Bank, with the cooperation of the
Watertown Police Department. 
Information about Bikes Not Bombs can be found at www.BikesNotBombs.org  . 
For more information about the Watertown collection call 617 926-8130.