100 Bikes for 100 Girls

by Rock-Paper-Scissors Children's Fund
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100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls
100 Bikes for 100 Girls

Project Report | Jan 18, 2017
Bikes to Repair

By Sara and Giao | RPS Founder and Staff

Trinh and her newly repaired bike
Trinh and her newly repaired bike

Dear Friends,

In 2016 you helped us provide 411 girls in Vietnam with new bikes! This has brought a great deal of joy to so many girls and their families, we just can't thank you enough. We hope to continue to give even more bikes in 2017, and have already been able to give 40 bikes this month alone. Thank you for your support! 

As you probably know, the bicycle is the main method of transportation used to get to school---there are no school buses in the rural areas of Vietnam. This being said, we know that we will probably never be able to provide bikes to all of the girls in these communities as much as we would love to, but we have decided that we can certainly help to maintain some of their existing old bikes.

Last summer we received a small grant of $1000 from our local rotary club to pilot a small bike repair program for both boys and girls.  If you've ever gone to a school in rural Vietnam when it is in session, you'll see in the school yard hundreds of bicycles. After experiencing this so often, and seeing what terrible condition many of the bikes often are in, we decided to simply hire a local mechanic to go to the schools during the day and repair bikes! We started this in October and have tried it at three schools so far with great success. We have repaired over 80 bikes with new brakes, seats, tires and tubes. The kids love it. Below is a little story we would like to share with you about one of the kids who had her bike repaired.

This story is written and translated by our in-country staff.

Story from the Field~~~~

When we met Trinh on the second day of the Rock-Paper-Scissor's bike repair workshop at her school, she hadn’t brought her bike and had walked instead, but when she heard about the program, she asked to have her name registered in our list for the next bike repair day. After one week we returned to the school, and Trinh did not have her bike again, but rushed back home to get it for us to repair. With a smile she said she was not about to miss the chance that would never come again, to have her bike fixed for free! We repaired Trinh’s bike with a tune up, a new seat, a new front basket and a new cover for the back wheel.

Trinh, she is 10 years old and in the 5th grade. Her teachers say that she is an excellent student at school. Trinh is the middle child of three siblings and she lives with her family in a little fishing village near the elementary school in the province of Khanh Hoa. Her dad is a fisherman and her mom does odd jobs, both of them work so hard to raise the three children and try to keep them in school, education is not free in Vietnam, so it is very hard for her family.

On the day that we talked to Trinh, she was in a hurry rushing to her classroom, we just had enough time to stop her and ask where she was going! She said she had to go to the computer room to practice the online English test. She was preparing for the well-known English language contest for gifted students called IOE (International Olympic English) in Vietnam. We were so impressed and so excited about this because we know that the contest is very competitive. 

Trinh was so happy to have her very old bike repaired that day, and thanked us greatly.

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 Thank you again for your kind support! Please visit our website and learn about all of our programs in Vietnam.

New bike-Jan 2017
New bike-Jan 2017
Girls and their bikes-Jan 2017
Girls and their bikes-Jan 2017
New bike 2017
New bike 2017
New Bike and Helmet
New Bike and Helmet

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Location: Wakefield, RI - USA
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Sara Nerone
Wakefield , RI United States

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