Houston Chronicle reporter Ryan Nickerson focused on Freewheels Houston’s opportunities for volunteer bike mechanics in a recent story. “Moving to Houston, I found Freewheels because I was looking for something that I could do with my mechanic experience,” said Adawi. “It’s nice seeing how you spend time working on something and…
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Members of a Rohingya family–refugees resettled in Houston–received bikes from Freewheels Houston on Jan. 25. The oldest son, 14-year-old Abdul, asked a case manager at Catholic Charities about bikes for him and his brother and sister, and then his dad decided he needed one as well. They are pictured with…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. rose to prominence in the U.S. civil rights movement in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, which was organized after the arrest of Rosa Parks for failing to surrender her seat near the front of a public bus. When the boycott began on Dec. 5, 1955,…
Teaming with PAIR Houston and BikeHouston, Freewheels Houston volunteers introduced 65 refugee middle-schoolers to new bike skills–and new bikes–during a two-day camp at the Houston Independent School District’s Jane Long Academy in late June. The campers also were entertained by five counselors from Lutherhill Camp and about 100 participants in…
