Fall 2020 Newsletter

On 6 June 2020, staying safe from Covid-19, we loaded our first container bound for Thailand: 472 bikes.  Our new partner there is the TVA Community.

In October we got this progress report from our partner in Thailand:

From: <sakhutar@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: Reporting
Date: October 7, 2020 at 3:58:26 AM EDT
To: “‘David Schweidenback'” <dschweidenback@gmail.com>
Cc: “‘nguyen Van Hanh'” <hanh@dariu.com>

Hello David and Hanh,

I’m very sorry for the late response, as we are in a very hectic situation here in Bangkok. Since covid crisis and our country has been locked down, all business activities have been disrupted heavily. Until now the situation still has not improved.

We have the received the donated bicycle container just last month. For the import process, the donation product was fully investigated by our customs department. We are now storing the bicycles in our warehouse.

Though some parts of the country have been slowly opening up from the lock-down, we prefer to wait until the country is fully opened up. Then we will start to distribute the bicycle to areas where they are most needed. We will make sure to take photos and send you an updated report.

Again, very sorry for keeping you waiting for such a long time.

Have a nice day,
Sak