Bicycle collection drive in the West Island

On Saturday, November 7th, between 10 am and 1 pm, the

residents of the Dollard-des-Ormeaux area are invited to bring out their used bikes to the West Island College. In

collaboration with Cycle North-South, the Interact Club will put your old bikes to good use by shipping them off to community organisations in Africa and Latin America.

Your unused bicycle could help a whole family roll out of poverty ! In order to help cover transportation fees, Cycle North-South requests a donation of $12, (or more according to your means) per bicycle donated. In exchange, you will receive an income tax receipt equal

to the value of the bicycle plus the cash donation.

All bicycles with 20-inch wheels and up in a reparable state are accepted. Even if you do not have a bicycle to donate, come and visit our stand during the collection ! We will also be selling fair trade products (chocolate, coffee, tea and hot chocolate), reusable tote bags and other cool things. You can also browse through our beautiful photographs of all the extraordinary ways in

which the bicycles are used in the South.

Bicycles are a very useful, economical and ecological mode of transportation whether it is used by a peasant in Cuba to get to bamboo fields, by a widow in Burkina Faso to take literacy classes or by a little Togolese girl to transport water to her parents. An original and sustainable way to change someone's life.

WHAT? Bicycle Collection Drive with Cycle North-South

WHEN? Saturday, November 7th 2009

Between 10 am and 1 pm

WHERE? West Island College

851, Tecumseh, Dollard-des-Ormeaux

WHO? Interact Club

Jamie Henderson, 514 683-4660