If you are spring cleaning your garage and realize you have an extra bicycle or cycling gear you no longer need, Bikes for Ukrainians is looking for more donations. The preferred way to contact the organizer Maureen Adamache is through Facebook messenger, but the group can also be reached via email at bikes.for.ukrainians@gmail.com to organize a drop-off or schedule a pickup.
Maureen started this initiative last year after rounding up some of her friends and putting a call out on social media for donations of old and unused bicycles, helmets, locks and other accessories. With the help of other volunteers from a Facebook group, a “safe bike guide” was created in Ukrainian and Russian for arrivals who don’t speak English. A team of volunteers and bike mechanics get together on Sunday afternoons to fix the used bicycles and help fit bikes to those that need them. Bikes for Ukraine supplied over 300 Ukrainians with bikes last year.
