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Seeds of Change in Rwanda

September 25, 2007
Written by: 
ALEX PERRY/NYAMATA
Time Online

Interviews by the Santa Barbara Middle School TEEN PRESS

September 21, 2007

Tom Ritchey

The Teen Press caught up with Tom as he raced between business meetings and magazine interviews to ask him about his work with Project Rwanda.

Doug's Rwanda Adventure

September 19, 2007
Written by: 
Doug Grant

From D.C. ducks to wooden bike pieces

It was time for me to experience – first-hand – the sights, the sounds, the smells, and the HILLS of Rwanda. I needed to see the coffee bikes in operation, meet some of the coffee growers, and discover the positive impact that Project Rwanda was having in that country. So this September I set out for a mountain bike tour of Rwanda with Tom Ritchey, and to help out with the second annual Wooden Bike Classic. This was an adventure of a lifetime for me.

A 50-mile bike ride turned into a charity mission for a Dove Canyon resident

September 18, 2007
Written by: 
Mark Eades
OCregister

Last December, Doug Grant's 50-mile mountain bike ride for his 50th birthday turned into a fundraiser for Project Rwanda, a charity that provides modern transport bikes for coffee farmers in that country.

After the event raised more than $29,000, Grant made it his mission to see how the charity and the bikes can change lives.

Reinventing the Wheel

August 31, 2007
Written by: 
Craig Cox
Ode Magazine

When Tom Ritchey, one of the inventors of the mountain bike, was on a cycle tour in Rwanda in December of 2005, he noted most of the nation’s half-million coffee growers were hauling their crop to market on bicycles made of wood or spare parts welded together.

Two Wheels for Rwanda

August 31, 2007
Written by: 
Matteo Poli and Alfonso Cantafora
Abitare

Due ruote
per il Ruanda

Una bici speciale
per il trasporto del caffè progettata

Project Rwanda with Stieda Cycling at the Tour de France

August 15, 2007
Written by: 
Alex Stieda
AlexTour de France

Taking a group of 17 adults on a bike tour is challenging, taking them on a trip to ride along and watch the Tour de France is quite another matter! We all arrived in Toulouse on July 21 to spend the next 10 days following the Tour de France through the Pyrénées and up to the finish in Paris.

MTB News and Notes: A Conversation with Tom Ritchey

August 08, 2007
Written by: 
Fred Dreier
Velo News

For the past year and a half, mountain-bike icon Tom Ritchey has aimed his time and energy at Project Rwanda. Alongside a growing number of volunteers, Ritchey has undertaken an ambitious plan to help revitalize the central African nation's economy and public image through the use of the bicycle.

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