Global child health
Jole Rider and bicycles for Africa
Accepted 27 November 2007
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Education is the most powerful way to change the world.Nelson Mandela
Getting children to school is vital.
As you read this, I may be dismantling, cleaning and reassembling the bottom bracket of a bicycle at Gunjur Upper Basic School in The Gambia. Surrounding me is an enthusiastic group of four girls and four boys who, with two teachers, are watching my every move, as they train to become mechanics for the fleet of 100 bicycles their school is about to receive (
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Figure 1 Bicycle training in progress.
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Figure 2 Bicycle handing-over ceremony.
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It is hot, the sky is visible through the roof, the classroom furniture is sparse and in poor repair but on the wall is the school motto: "Education for all, especially women and children". Outside, dozens of pairs of interested eyes are peering through the 3-inch mesh which forms the windows.
For these budding cycle
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