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Making bikes and Changing Lives

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What’s the maddest thing your planning to do this summer🌞 Well on the 24th of august 2019, here’s what we want to do. 8 young people and their leaders from Inchicore who learn and work on bikes in our bike skills workshop are going to Morocco.  We’re gonna build bikes with Moroccan street kids, teaching them how to build, maintain and repair bikes.  Ya wha🤔  Yes, we want to bring 8 young people from our bike project up to the edge of the western Sahara and the Atlas Mountains to teach Moroccan kids about bikes. And, what's really exciting some of our young people have never been out of Ireland. But we’re not going on a holiday, it will be hot, there will be big bugs, snakes and scorpions. Every taste, smell, sight and noise will be new.  Young people will be stepping out of their comfort zone (and let’s be honest some of our lads are traumatised on the other side of the M50). They’ll be challenged with a new culture and reality of the difficult liv...