The mission of the P4P reads:
“To empower sustainable economic development by recycling bicycles and sewing machines from the US and shipping them to motivated people in the developing world.”

At TA on September 20 will be the first ever collection in the Upper Valley of bicycles and sewing machines supporting the 25 year effort by Vermonters Paul Demers and his wife JoAnne Heidkamp who have coordinated Pedals for Peace, (P4P), in Vermont, a non profit, which annually collects used bicycles and sewing machines in Vermont and gets them to NJ where they are prepared for shipping overseas to direct connections in third world countries where the bikes and sewing machines are immediately put to constructive use in countries such as Albania, Guatemela, Belize and Togo. As a Thetford citizen I am working with Paul and Joanne to make this collection happen. Our goal is to collect and load 70 serviceable bikes and 5-10 serviceable sewing machine that afternoon. I will reach out through list serves and local contacts to get donations which will be “signed in” and dropped off and loading up that afternoon. We hope to have 2-4 TA student volunteers as “Greeters and Traffic Flow Assistors” on September 20. The website http://www.p4p.org will give more background and connected efforts.

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