By having the option for beneficiaries to bring their bikes to REACH to fix free of charge, we are able to ensure that our families are mobile, that guardians can travel to work, and importantly, that their children can attend school. The repairs are carried out by our Repair Shop Supervisor and youth who are training in bike maintenance.

Through this initiative, our beneficiaries are learning to care for and maintain their bicycles independently! In addition, the repairs shop kindly accepts pre-loved bicycles for our team to repair and donate back into the local community to children and families in need.

Our Repairs Shop is also the host of our volunteer youths and interns who are given the opportunity to learn a new, practical skill. The youths take part in vocational training in the shop whereby they fix their peers’ bikes and learn how to complete end-to-end refurbishments. Full refurbs are carried out on old junk bicycles that had been discarded under houses or had ended up on the trash heap. We recycle everything we physically can and teach the students that nothing goes to waste.

Our Repair Shop Supervisor is responsible for preparing, priming, and giving the bikes a new coat of paint, while the youths build wheels and drive trains from scratch and fix the new bells and baskets on the bikes so that they look as good as new. A full refurbishment takes approximately 36 hours and once complete, is offered out to other NGOs in return for donations back into the program.