Starting next week, Bicycles Create Change is proudly hosting a fortnight of Country Specific blog posts from each of the Bicycles Create Change Summer Program Participants who will be our guest bloggers.
This means that the home country of each writer will be featured for a fortnight, and a selection of unique bicycles stories, local to that region, and inaccessible by English Speakers, will presented. Each writer brings their own distinctive take and will provide genuine and invaluable cultural interpretations on how bicycles are utilised in their home country in 5 posts.
Tomorrow we start with Japan by Sachie Togashiki, then in succession; Cameroon by Gabriel Besong Etch; India by Beula Juliet Alfred; Columbia by Mauricio Gonzalez Betancur. Each country will have an interval of 1 week of regular blog posts.
So, the upcoming schedule will look like:
Sachie 11 April – 24 April
Normal posts: April 25 – 1st May
Gabriel 2 May – 15 May
Normal posts: 16th May – 22st May
Juliet 23 May – 5 June
Normal posts: 6th June – 12th June
Mauricio 13 June – 26 June
I am very excited by this format, as it means that the expertise, personal experience and local cultural insights that each of these young professionals will inject into each of their posts will enhance the meaningfulness, imperative and authenticity for each story.
It also means that given the linguistic expertise of these researchers, we will able to gain far greater insights and access more content than those just published in English.
I am delighted that these four professionals have agreed to share their unique research translation and analysis with us and I can’t wait to read about how they perceive bicycles to create change in their home countries.
Enjoy!!
