Non-profit to deliver bicycles to Myanmar’s rural children

05 June 2019
Non-profit to deliver bicycles to Myanmar’s rural children
Photo: Than Tun Win/Facebook

10,000 bicycles from failed bike-sharing companies ofo and oBike will be given as gifts for needy students in Myanmar, The Straits Times reported.

A Myanmar non-profit, Lesswalk, bought the bikes in April and will start giving them to the students from end-June. The bikes were bought from third-parties like warehouse operators who were left holding the unused bikes after ofo and oBike folded in Singapore and Malaysia.

Lesswalk founder Mr Than Tun Win is aiming to distribute the bikes to rural villages, and has identified students living 2km away from school and aged between 13 to 16 as the main beneficiaries of the 10,000 bikes.