Cottage industries, yay!

http://www.p4p.org/

very small operation

our "loading docking" was old shipping pallets with a layer of plywood

the bikes were stored in a "warehouse" which is just 8 old truck trailers

they would back up a shipping container on a truck trailer, and just leave it parked in the sun

all this is outside

had a fan for the summer that would blow into the container, didn't really keep anything cool

you'd pack the bikes side to side, literally slamming the last one on each row down between the bikes and the container wall, because no amount of damage done there, amount to that done when the bikes settled during shipping.

better to lose one bike at the end because it was messed up slamming it down, then a whole row of bikes that were allowed to bend over and get crushed by the bikes above

you'd do a row of adult bikes, put down 1 sheet of plywood that mostly made it across the whole thing, then you would do a second row of adult bikes

then, depending on the amount of kids bikes we had and they needed, we'd either do a full row of kids bikes, or take some adult bikes and lay them flat (boy did that suck, trying to lift an adult bike by the side of it, with your arms fully extended, and while already having to stand up straight

once you got to kids bikes, you';d just lay down some cardboard, then just throw them up there and jam them in as much as possible

often times laying on your back on the cardboard, and using your feet to slide a bike along the room up over all the packed bikes and into a whole

on a hot summer day, if you didn't wear some kind of hat or bandana, you could easily get a first or even second degree burn from the roof

i miss it, shit was fun. owner is a family friend

how many bikes did you move per crate you think?

probably 380-480, depending on if it was a 40ft or 45 ft

usually around 400-420

if i remember

and whislt doing non profit work how can you sustain yourself

as in food home etc

i was still at home, working for him a couple times on the weekend

this was while in high school, but he is retired i think, and his wife is a math teacher. he does all kids of crazy shit, this is just one of the things

and he (David Schweidenback) has been all over. lived in south america for a time if i remember, living in one of the mountain ranges

awesome guy

soundspretty great actually

maybe one day in the not too distant future i'll be able to meet back up with them and have some capital to invest into them, at least help expand operations

we were still getting a decent amount of bikes for it being in the middle of the recession when i worked there, around 2010 or 11

oh shit, they spun off the sewing machine part (no pun intended)

@DefinitlyNotInsane - NL if you have time, here is an interview he did with a local news team about the start of it all and waht they do http://www.p4p.org/podcasts/podcastNicoleSmithInterviewsDaveSchweidenback20180328.mp3

this is the shit that should be on the news more often, not what dumb shit trump said

Thanks! Ill look into it @Grenade123

he shares a bunch of stories of what inspired him and how he saw it succeeding

awesome stuff

Sup mofos

```i sometimes don;t think foreign aid is meant to aid, so much as to make a dependency for leverage```
I agree, wich is why I don't like all those Africanophile NGOs that do more harm than good. Because they give free stuff to the Africans, who hate "the white man", so that they can live (hating white people)...
And and one African female has on average like 4-5 kids....
Ähm, I see a big problem here...

Also they breed faster when theres food. Its basically feeding a beast that will bite you when you stop

Congratulations, you now understand the primary function of aid in geopolitics

Aid is a temporary solution for an unvorseable event.

It can and must not be a permanent solution ever, like its the case in Africa....