Buffalo Bike

Buffalo bicycle components are sourced from manufacturers in Asia who produce each part to their specifications. Their Taiwan-based supplier management team reviews potential supplies, evaluates product quality, and manages shipping logistics. They arrive to Africa completely dissembled, where trained teams put them together.

World Bicycle Relief sells to organizations, businesses, and individuals across Africa to meet their transportation needs. Bike sales help their customers accomplish their goals efficiently while generating revenue to WBR, improving factory productivity and increasing spare parts network viability. Bicycle sales lead to additional support for WBR’s education, healthcare, micro-finance, and disaster relief training programs.

When donated, the bicycles are given to schools, not individuals. Each school has a panel of community leaders that decides how to distribute the bikes. A contract is then signed between the recipient of the bike, his or her parents and the school panel. In the contract it clearly states that the recipient may only keep the bike as long as they attend class.