When a bike is purchased 100% of the remaining £80 (based on a £330 sale) is used to ship bicycles to Malawi. In the UK, it costs us around £250 to collect, store, process, shot-blast, powder coat, transport, purchase spares/baskets, do a final quality check, sell and package/post each bike. The profits from Beebikes funds care for pre-school children in our own Mother Teresa Children’s Center in the heart of the township. Bikes in Malawi can be life transforming and often mean an income for life. They are then sold to Malawians who can travel to work, transport goods to market and travel miles to school or college. This African workshop employs eight local people to repair and service the donated bikes from Britain. Sponsorship from Mobal Communications Ltd, and the ‘buy one give one’ scheme has helped us to ship thousands of ex-postal Mailstar bikes to Malawi over the past six years. One of our most successful enterprises is BeeBikes. This helps to break the cycle of poverty and creates future Malawian business leaders. All of the money generated by the enterprises pays for children’s education and community family support. To date 500 people who previously lived on less than £1 per day are in secure long-term employment. These businesses create training opportunities and meaningful jobs. Since 2007 Krizevac Project (our parent charity) has worked hard to create viable social enterprises in a community hub known as Beehive.
In Chilomoni Township, Malawi, a quiet revolution of enterprise creation is helping to end poverty for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
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