100 Bikes for 100 Girls

Happy New Year Everyone,

First, thank you very much to all of you, we could not provide so many girls in Vietnam with bicycles without your constant and continued support each year. In 2022, your donations directly went to buying bicycles, helmets, and bike pumps for 520 girls! So many girls and so many bicycles. Thank you everyone! Here is a quick look at two lovely girls who received bikes this year.

Meet My. She is pictured here with her mother at their home. My was so thrilled to receive a bike so that she could proudly ride it to school! She is nine years old and in the third grade. My has never had a father present in her life, and doesn’t know him, but she is being raised by her very loving mother, Lien. Lien earns a living by doing odd jobs, which often isn’t very steady, and as you can see they live in a very small, old house. My’s favorite subject in school is Math and she is dreaming about becoming a teacher one day. Thank you for giving her a bicycle, a gift that means a great deal to her and her mom.

Meet Vy. Vy is pictured here with her father who does odd jobs for a living. Vy’s mother, who is 25 years old, works as a factory worker, so Vy’s dad is her, and her five-year-old brother’s main caretaker on most days because of the long hours that her mom works. We are getting to know Vy well because she joined our new art class in her village in August. Our art teacher loves Vy and says that Vy tells her that art is her favorite subject in school. In our classes, she is so excited to take part and she has appointed herself the student monitor of the class! As you can see, she is talented and very creative. She is a very hard-working little student, and we thank you all for giving her a bicycle this year!

Thank you for supporting so many girls like My and Vy this past year, and happy 2023!

Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissors Crew

PS: Of course, if any of you ever travel to Vietnam, and are in the area that we work in, please contact us, and let us know you would like to attend a bike giving ceremony and meet the girls who you have donated to!

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Hello Everyone,

We wanted to send a quick update on our Bikes for Girls Program in Vietnam. You are getting this report because you have supported our girls with a donation either recently or in the past. Thank you so much! So far this year, together we have given 480 girls new bicycles to travel to school. That is a lot of girls! We are so proud to use your donations like this to support their safety and travel back and forth from home to their schools. Your bicycles continue to bring the girls great joy and pride. We plan to continue to distribute the bikes, helmets, and bike pumps that you have contributed to, to more girls through the rest of this year, and on into years to come.

In some of the photos posted with this report, you can see that we continue to repair the girl's bikes through our bike repair program. Check out the great photos that one of our bike mechnics took at a bike repair day in August.

Over the summer, I was lucky to be able travel over to Vietnam for the first time since the pandemic started and work with our staff in person instead of on zoom. All our programs are running so well, and I want to say thank you to our Vietnamese staff for working with our partners the local red cross, each month to identify our bike recipients, order the bikes and helmets, and go to every bike giving that we do throughout the year. All of them are amazing, and you can be assured that your donation is making a difference.

Again, thank you for supporting 480 girls so far this year.

We hope that you all have a wonderful fall!

Sara and the Rock-Paper-Scissors Crew

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