This weekend, dozens of volunteers are touring the Brady Road dump in winnipeg city in search of children’s motorcycles that can be recovered and repaired as a component of Winnipeg Repair Education and Cycling Hub’s Empty the Fill: Back 2 School Build program at winnipeg Repair. Center for Education and Cycling (KEY). Project A-Thon.
Repaired and refurbished motorcycles will then be donated through WRENCH and its school partners to young people who would not otherwise be able to do so.
“There are two important weekend passes we hope to achieve,” said The occasion’s coordinator, Jon Benson, on Friday. “The first would be to divert as much waste from the landfill as you can imagine. Otherwise, those motorcycles would simply go to the landfill, so renew as much as you can imagine (that’s the passage). (The goal of the moment is) Get so many young people on their bikes and give them the opportunity to get informed to ride a motorbike and move to school or just their neighborhoods.
“It puts them in the hands of young people who would not otherwise be allowed to pay them. This gives young people the opportunity to train and ride a bike. “
The occasion took place throughout the day on Saturday and continues on Sunday from 9:30 a. m. at 4:30 p. m. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, WRENCH was limited to the number of other people who can safely have on site, and all volunteer positions were Four separate groups of 20 volunteers will be on site each day.
They had to turn down potential volunteers. “It’s unfortunate, but that’s the way it is in those days,” said Benson, who predicts 50 to 60 volunteers will participate, many of whom will paint more than one shift.
WRENCH, through its dating to the city of Winnipeg, sometimes has a motorcycle stable recovered from the Brady Road landfill at the southern end of the city and distributed for much of the summer. However, this year due to the global pandemic, all these public events had to be cancelled and the mountain of bicycles continued to accumulate.
“We organize a similar occasion every year around Christmas, called the Donation Cycle, where we do the same at the Orioles Community Center,” Benson said. “We ship all the motorcycles from the sale to the center of the network and organize a 24-hour occasion that lasts all night and all those bikes are donated. It’s like an autumn edition of the back-to-school season, because we haven’t been able to get as many bikes out in summer as we would. “
Although this is difficult to estimate, Benson estimates that more than 1,000 motorcycles end up in the landfill each year, so he believes they have no problem imagining their purpose of recovering and repairing two hundred motorcycles this week.
“The only question is whether we have enough time to set that figure. We won’t run out of bikes to fix, it’s only a matter of time and how many volunteers we have to fix all those bikes,” Benson said.
Members of the public who wish to help on the occasion and similar paintings that WRENCH makes the year are encouraged to make a donation through the WRENCH online page or in https://www. canadahelps. org/en/dn/32582
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