MAYA Pedal

Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan NGO based in San Andrés Itzapa. With the help of Bikes not Bombs (Boston) ,twice a year a shipping container of bikes in varying degrees of disrepair are sent to San Andrés to be repaired sold or re-purposed into pedal powered machinery. During the course of a three month stay, I was reconstructing old and used bikes into new refurbished ones, welding frames for several variations of 'bici maquinas' and teaching local youth how to fix their own bikes. In my free time I studied Spanish in neighbouring Antigua, played street basketball with locals and took a few bike trips around Guatemala.
http://www.mayapedal.org/