When Jeremy asked me to write an article about how the bicycles have changed my life, the first thing was to think of my financial standing, before the bicycle project and now.

Then I sat down and reviewed my whole life, my family, my community and the people behind the whole project; Voluntours; People and Places; Recycle UK and most importantly Nigel Pegler and Mike Hsieh.

“Dear Charles,

I am writing this for the lack of anything better to give in appreciation for all you have done for us in the past few weeks.  I become emotional to that there are still people out there who care about the welfare of others even though they might differ culturally and otherwise.