By FIDESMA
Spring 2022 Newsletter
[Editor’s note: Our longest-running partnership is with FIDESMA, in Guatemala, where we’ve shipped more than 12,000 bikes since 1999. Their most recent container arrived in December 2021: Guatemala #22. Below is an update on their ongoing projects.]
Social Projects, 2019 to 2022
Support for the Disabled: wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, and orthopedic beds.- Job Training: courses in baking, textiles, crafts, Guatemalan and international cuisine.
- Women’s Support Groups: citizen participation workshops, rights of women, and care of the family and children.
- Education and Schools: donation of computers, improvement of preschool and primary-school classrooms.
- Environmental Education: Community and school programs on garbage management, pollution, and drinking water.
- Bicycle Project: Ecolobici-FIDESMA: We are hoping to move our bicycle project to a new location that is larger than our current space and more accessible to our customers who come from other regions of Guatemala. We are looking for a place near the main Inter-American highway, a plot of land larger than our current location. The new complex would house our bicycle shop, repair shop, and storage for spare parts and accessories. It would include a parking lot. And it would include a store that sells groceries and other everyday necessities.
All these projects are due to the support of national and international institutions such as Pedals for Progress, and to the profits we earn in the FIDESMA bicycle project, Ecolobici.
