Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio — Relocalizing Vermont discusses bicycles, sewing machines, and the transformative power of simple tools.
9:00 - 10:00 am
Pedals for Progress has been sending used bicycles overseas to low-income countries since 1991. Now they send used sewing machines, too—and both are capable of transforming lives and providing new income sources for people. In connection with the bike and sewing machine collection event Friday in Montpelier and Saturday in Burlington, P4P president Alan Schultz and local volunteer Joanne Heidkamp will talk about the value of these simple tools, what condition they need to be in, etc.
p4p.org
https://www.p4p.org/collection-schedule/
Bikes and sewing machines can be transformative here in Central Vermont, too! Laura Brooke will describe how Freeride Montpelier Community Bike Shop provides affordable used bikes, tools and skills for maintaining them, and more. And Erin Aguayo, who organizes "sewists" (seamsters/seamstresses) to make washable menstrual hygiene kits for people in Vermont and overseas, will talk about the power of sewing brigades in meeting ongoing health needs and pivoting to respond to the emergency need for masks, early in the Covid pandemic.
http://freeridemontpelier.org
http://www.daysforgirls.org
10:00 - 10:30 am
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Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at archive.wgdr.org