Bicycle and Sewing Machine Collection
Westfield Rotary Club
The Westfield Rotary Club is sponsoring a collection of bicycles and sewing machines for donation to Pedals4Progress (P4P). Get ready to bring your old but usable bicycles and sewing machines to the collection on Saturday, October 8 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the Westfield Board of Education Building, 302 Elm Street Westfield, NJ. A $20 suggested, $10 minimum donation with each bike or sewing machine is requested for shipping. All material and monetary donations are tax deductible and a receipt will be provided on site.
Pedals4Progress effectively recycles serviceable bicycles and sewing machines to be used as economic development tools in developing countries. Since 1991, 164,721 bicycles and 5,684 sewing machine have been donated and given to people to increase their ability to earn a living or get an education.
Pedals4Prgress strives “to empower sustainable economic development by recycling bicycles and sewing machines from the U.S. and shipping them to motivated people in the developing world.”
P4P rescues bicycles destined for overburdened U.S. landfills and ships them to developing countries where they are sorely needed and highly valued. P4P bikes are put to work not only as basic transportation, but are used as a supplement to school and community programs. The bikes are adapted for use as trash haulers, produce trucks, taxis, and farm machinery.
Every year, affluent Americans buy 22 million new bicycles and discard millions of old ones, abandoning many more unused in basements, sheds, and garages. Most of these end up in our already overburdened landfills. Meanwhile, poor people overseas need cheap, non-polluting transportation to get to jobs, markets, customers, and schools.
Before you make your final decision to donate your bike to our project please consider that our bicycle collections are our major fund-raising events. It costs on average $52 to get a bike to its new home. In order to succeed, we suggest a $20 donation, with a minimum of $10, with each bicycle and sewing machine at the collections. Bikes, sewing machine, and monetary donations are tax deductible; a receipt is provided at the collections. Pedals for Progress is a 501(c)(3) organization with a 100% rating rating from CharityNavigator.
For more information contact Warren Rorden by calling 908-232-6807 or emailing wrorden@msn.com.
