Freewheels Houston has provided bikes to people who are starting new chapters in their lives, making life better by enabling men, women and children to go to work, get to school, shop for their families and explore the city around them. Responding to the surge of refugees arriving from Afghanistan…
Houston Chronicle: Houston led the nation in resettling Afghans
Freewheels Houston provided bikes to 287 refugees in 2022. Almost all were people who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
Do you need a bike for transportation?
Freewheels is a volunteer nonprofit organization and preps and repairs donated bikes for refugees, veterans and young people from low-income families. We receive requests for bikes on a daily basis and the number of requests currently exceeds our capacity to repair bikes. Please completing this form and ask your case…
Freewheels at Covenant House
Freewheels worked with volunteers and staff at Covenant House Texas, a program for homeless youth in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, to create a bike lending program for participants in Rights of Passage, a transitional housing program which allows young people to refine their independent living skills up to two years. They learn…