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Worcester Love Episode 005 (Worcester Earn-a-Bike)

Andrea & Kaz visit Worcester Earn-a-Bike, a community program dedicated to teaching people bicycle maintenance while enabling them to earn a bike from an inventory of donated bicycles.Their mission is to teach fun, affordable bike repair to people of all backgrounds focusing on neighborhood youth and community members by providing tools, instruction, and repairable bikes and parts. They encourage bike riding as an empowering, economical, and healthy alternative to car culture. The earn-a-bike program provides donated bicycles and parts. Participants can choose a bike to earn after volunteering five hours towards our shop operation: for instance, removing and organizing parts, building bikes for donation or sale, or general help in the shop. They provide a teaching environment that allows people of all ages to learn repair and maintenance skills specific to bicycles as well as more general skills, instilling confidence far beyond the bike stand. They operate as an open shop where anyone can come and volunteer in exchange for parts and skills to earn a bike or fix up their own bike.

http://www.worcesterlove.com

http://www.worcesterearnabike.org/