Freewheels is grateful to “Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Hidden Heroes” and the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance at Rice University for their great work, including this segment highlighting Freewheels Houston’s volunteer program to provide bikes that improve mobility for refugees and other newcomers.
Park Tool grant for Freewheels
Freewheels Houston has been chosen as one of the 10 winners of the Park Tool 2018 Community Grant Program, and the leading bike tool manufacturer will sending two new Park Tool repair stands, a Park Tool professional mechanic tool kit and the authoritative Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair. The…
Why refugees need bikes
Houston’s most recent arrivals include people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Myanmar and South Sudan–people who have come to build a safe, new life for their families. Abdul is an electrical engineer who fled Afghanistan with his wife and daughter and came to Houston in Spring 2016…
Houstonia covers Freewheels
Heather Saucier reports on Freewheels Houston’s efforts to provide bicycles to refugees: https://www.houstoniamag.com/articles/2018/1/30/free-wheels-bikes-refugees-houston