CPS, Mike's Bikes send bicycles to Africa

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Publication: Oakland Tribune

Date: 2008-07-03 00:00:00

Students at the College Preparatory School helped send 400 bicycles recently to Botswana, and this month, they'll unpack the bikes and distribute them among nurses in the African country.

The bike project was created from a partnership between College Prep, a 340-student private high school in Oakland, and Mike's Bikes, a bicycle shop with several locations in the Bay Area.

Adrianna Smyth, a College Prep science teacher, saw a news story on television about the bike shop's efforts to collect customers' old bikes and send them to Botswana, a ...

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