Bikes Arrived !!!!

Finally we get to the W4L project!

There have been tons of people all contributing to make this work and that has been a blessing to have everyone’s support. Ill thank everyone in a later update.

However, when there are so many people working together the amount of coordinating needed to make things happen can be overwhelming… so when we got the call from Milton at Della Bikes, in Florianopolis, that the 25 bikes from Houstons had arrived it, was a huge relief.



Milton donated the time of his staff to set up each bike. When we arrived, there were 4 people working on getting bikes together and Fe and I jumped in to help as well. It takes about 1 hour to set up each bike so big thanks to Milton and his staff for the help.


We had already organized for 2 of the recipients from the newspaper (Jornal e Diferente) to receive their bikes that afternoon so Fe, Alberto, and myself packed 2 bikes in the car and headed out to make the deliveries.

Our first stop was to Biguacu, Santa Catarina, to the house of Flavio De Souza. Flavio was one of two people who were nominated from the newspaper by people in the community to receive this bike. He lives up in the hillside of a small town and will use this bike to get to his work. He works down in the local lumber yard cutting wood for residential use.


Next stop was to Palhoca, Santa Catarina, to the house of Maureci Pereira. Maureci is 63 years old and works as a brick layer. His specialty is carrying the huge bricks and rocks to and from job sites. He does more manual labor in one week than most of us do our whole lives. He plans to ride this bike the 35 mile round trip to and from work each day. His old bike was so rusted over that the wheels stopped spinning. He was so stoked to get his shiny new bike that he invited us over for lunch any weekend day we wanted.

These little guys were playing soccer in the street out in front of their school right near Maureci's house. They were stoked just to have us take their picture. I think it made them feel famous! I hope he lets them borrow the bike from time to time.