Posted by: Alex Narracott
on Jul 27, 2010
Muchbetteradventures.com chat to Kona about the AfricaBike project, new partnership and support opportunites arising from it, and the future of Kona BasicNeeds.
Three years ago Kona were approached by Bicycling Magazine in the USA and asked, ‘can you make a robust, rugged, low maintenance bike to be used by health care workers fighting HIV and Aids in Africa?’ ‘Yes’ was the reply, and with it the Kona AfricaBike was born.
With a few AfricBike donations around Africa and promotion through Bicycling Magazine, the attention of the general public was captured. People were asking 'how can we be involved?' and 'how can we buy a Kona AfricaBike?'