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Bicycles for Humanity
Colorado

Changing the World
Two Wheels at a Time

Bicycles for Humanity Colorado delivers transportation to Africa in the form of donated bikes. 100% of B4H’s proceeds are used to ship donated bikes to rural towns in Africa where there is no means of transportation beyond walking. After donating bikes to mobile healthcare workers, the rest are sold from the retrofitted shipping container - turned local bike shop, providing a boost to the economy of the community.

B4H creates opportunities for African women by enabling transportation for commerce, healthcare and education. B4H also provides entrepreneurial opportunities by hiring and training women as bike mechanics and to manage the bike shops.

For peopleliving on $2 per day, a bicycle is normally far beyond their reach. Most female heads of households lack transportation to access healthcare, economic and educational opportunities for their family. B4H is focused on opening up opportunities for women by giving them much needed transportation and the ability to help provide a better life for their families.

For more information, visit
www.B4Hcolorado.org

Bicycles for Humanity Colorado and
BoldeReach are 501(c)(3)
non-profit organizations

UAF & BoldeReach

2009 Update from

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

After a decade of networking, outreach, research and advocacy, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF) is now poised to step-up our support of women human rights defenders around the world to greater levels than ever before.  The support of BoldeReach has helped deepen and expand UAF’s Rapid Response Grantmaking Program for women human rights defenders operating in high-risk environments throughout the world.

In 2008, Urgent Action Fund’s Rapid Response Grantmaking Program took a huge leap forward.  The Program experienced unprecedented growth last year with a total of 124 grants – 55% more than any previous year! We also marked another milestone just this May – the highest number of grants disbursed in one month: 17.  We believe this is due to a combination of factors, both positive and negative, that began emerging in late 2007.  On the one hand, UAF’s efforts to strategically raise its visibility among potential grantees – as well as colleagues who refer grantees – have clearly been successful in exposing more women’s groups to UAF as a potential funder.  In 2008, we conducted electronic outreach to women activists in a number of regions in the world including Colombia, the Occupied Territories, Georgia, India, and Mongolia.  We have also spent several years building the capacity of the grants program, including the addition of grants and other staff that are fluent in at least one language other than English.  At the same time, physical attacks against UAF grantees appear to be becoming more severe and less accountable. We have seen conflicts and their consequences on women and their families intensify in areas such as Burma, Philippines, Colombia, Gaza, Nicaragua and elsewhere, making the need for Rapid Response Grants greater than ever...more - read the full report.

See a full list of grants to women activists in 2009.