Randy Fox hopes the spirit of giving this Thanksgiving weekend will drive Bikes for Humanity’s fourth annual bicycle donation days in Thunder Bay.
Thursday and Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. anyone looking to donate their old bicycles can drop them off at 507 E. Victoria Ave. where the local chapter of Bikes for Humanity will be collecting the bikes to send to Sierra Leone this November.
Organizer Randy Fox says in a third world country a bicycle can be the difference in saving a life.
“It means extending the reach of a health care worker from five to seven miles a day if they had to walk the distance to 15 to 20 miles a day if they can ride the distance,” he said. “Generally you can go five times as far on a bicycle in the same amount of time you can walking.”
Throughout the past four years, more than 550 bikes have been shipped out of Thunder Bay to Namibia; this will be the first shipment headed to another country.
While Fox said they’d take any bike that’s donated, the ones most in need are standard mountain bikes.
“They’re sturdy bicycles and good for use in a third world country,” he said.
