Rotary Club of Glendale, CA (Noon) was one of the first organizations that supported us 2 years ago. They were vital in helping us reach the $25,000 millstone year to date. Today we were invited by the Club’s President Mrs. Elizabeth Manasserian, to give a progress report. By the end of our talk, we were presented […]

Ms.Tsovina Hayrapetyan, was one of the reporters who accompanied us when we delivered bikes to “lady of Armenian” summer camp (August 2014). This video is in Armenian language, but we are grateful for her help in trying to publicize our cause.

We are thrilled to announce that the delivery of the 50 bikes to four different Armenian orphanages and day camps was a huge success. Once again we were a witness to the power of bicycles. The bicycles brought joy and happiness to all the children. The bicycles will provide the children who have very little […]

Today, the Bikes 4 Orphans/FCN volunteer team are leaving today to go to Armenia to deliver the 50 bicycles to the orphans there. We will be posting pictures and updates on our Facebook page and blog regularly. If any of you are in Armenia in the next two weeks please message us if you would like […]

Bikes 4 Orphans is thrilled to announce that twenty bicycles were recently delivered to “The Daos Children Centre,” in Kenya. This is the second Kenyan orphanage that we have been privileged to work with. An overwhelming majority of the orphans were eager to receive bicycles after Johnathan Munyany, the orphanage’s director, asked the children what […]

After speaking about Bikes 4 Orphans a couple months ago at Sumner Elementary School in Claremont, the students worked hard to raise money for our cause. These children are an inspiration to us all. They took the initiative to help other children thousands of miles away so they can also go to school and have […]

Good news! With the help of Qhubeka (an affiliate of World Bicycle Relief), we were able to deliver 11 bikes to the Khayelisha Care Project in Tugela Ferry, South Africa last week. Andrea, the director of the orphanage, requested bicycles for the children last summer. The Khayelisha Care Project is a “step down” facility for […]

I am very excited to announce that the bikes for Armenia have finally arrived from the distributor (Pacific Cycles) and we will be sending the shipping container with all 50 bicycles to Armenia this Saturday. We purchased all these bicycles using the money we raised from our Oct. 2013 Bike-a-thon and Hike-a-thon. Thank you everyone […]

        We have an exciting update to share with you all! Initially, we began the bike collection drive because we could not find any organizations that would sell us bicycles for a cheap price as well as deliver them to the Armenian Orphanage. Our plan was to collect bicycles here in Los […]

       A couple weeks ago, the librarian, Marleene Bazela, of Sumner Elementary School read our article on the LA Times. After reading about our story, she was motivated to help our cause. I was honored yesterday to speak in front of the students ranging from Kindergarten to Sixth Grade. I was very surprised how they attentively listened, asked great questions and […]