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Villages are connected to farms by foot-wide dirt paths, used constantly for ferrying goods to market. Children are often employed to move cocoa beans from their parents' farm to the village, where the pisteur comes to purchase the beans. Those few children whose parents can afford to send them to school could use bicycles to get there, as schools can be as far away as 6 miles.
Think of all the people you know who purchase a bicycle for their child only to stick it in the garage a year later. There it sits, molding, until a garage sale 15 years later, when the tires have deflated and the chain has rusted. Why not send it to our foundation? You pay for the shipping to us and we pay for the shipping to Ivory Coast!
Did you know that one of three man-made objects visible from the moon is the Staten Island landfill, a monument to greed and selfishness? Let's keep bicycles out of the landfills!
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