#88bikes

[tadasimha]

Mongolian bicycle horde? Going to have to write a story now!

Pictured from 88Bikes instagram

[miirinc]

88bikes Passport to Happiness

Our friends at 88bikes launched their "Passport to Happiness" campaign today and we are, once again, blown away by their amazing work. 88bikes provides bicycles to survivors of human trafficking around the world. This new campaign will help 88bikes grow and support more girls with transportation, bicycle maintenance skills, and job based education.

We're honored to be part of the campaign with an 88bikes x MiiR cobranded tumbler! We hope you'll join us in supporting the "Passport to Happiness'. 

[thelavinagency-blog]

The bike in the countries we work with is just incredibly useful, and also incredibly fun. … You give a kid a bike who’s been through poverty and war and disease … and it just transforms their lives. … We have enumerable stories. … I don’t really consider us a bike NGO; we’re a happiness NGO. That’s what we’re concerned about.

Dan Austin, founder of 88bikes, talks with The Oberlin Review about his philosophy of 'joy-based philanthropy', and explains why giving a bike to a less fortunate child provides so much more than just a way to "go from point A to point B."

[thelavinagency-blog]

A wonderful video. Social entrepreneur Dan Austin talks about his organization, 88bikes—which gives bicycles to children in developing countries—and explains his concept of "joy-based  philanthropy."

[thelavinagency-blog]

Dan Austin's 88 Bikes Announces Project Asha

Dan Austin's 88 Bikes, which gives bicycles to children in need and helps bolster local economies, will soon launch its most ambitious project to date. Project Asha, inspired when Dan met “Asha” at a remote Indian ashram, will give bicycles to young girls who have been victims of sexual slavery and abuse. For more information, visit 88bikes.org. (Above: from an earlier 88 Bikes project)

[livingphilanthropic]

Day 338: 88bikes

I just got home from the first preview of El Nogalar at the Goodman, there was a full house tonight. It's been a long time since I performed for that many people at least 4 years and it was thrilling and nerve-wracking. I am so blessed for the opportunity to share this story with so many. Today's give is inspired by a similar ideology of my favorite organization Foundation Escalera, whose bike program provides bikes to students who pursue a higher education in Mexico and maintain a certain GPA, drop out and lose the bike, maintain and you get to keep the bike. Simple enough. 88bikes is another great organization utilizing the simple gift of transportation to empower and transform the lives of those in developing countries. 

The 88bikes Foundation has a very simple goal: to provide a sustainable, joyful, empowering form of transportation to young people in developing countries, in situations where these children lives have been directly affected by war, conflict, poverty, disease, or other regional hardships. 88bikes was started in 2006 by Dan Austin, Nicolas Arauz, and Jared Austin. In November 2006, 88Bikes started its first project in partnership with the Friends of Cambodian Children, to raise funds for 88 bikes. After exceeding its fundraising goal in just two weeks, the organization gave 88 bikes to 88 kids at the Palm Tree Orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in January 2007.  88bikes has since added endowment locations in Uganda, Peru, Vietnam, Nepal, India and Ghana. In addition, 88bikes is developing programs to provide the kids with bike-based job training skills.

Amount Donated: $5

To support 88bikes please visit: http://www.88bikes.org