BAP or (Bicycles Against Poverty) is a Bucknell student led nonprofit organization founded at Bucknell University. The founding and first chapter of BAP is at Bucknell University and Bucknell currently acts as the sponsor of BAP. This enables BAP to get tax deductible donations. The BAP model of operation currently enables BAP to retrieve half the cost of the bicycle from the beneficiaries and all the collected money is reinvested into the bicycle program. Although this model seems business like, its entirely not for profit because all the money goes back into the community. In the summer of 2007, Muyambi (currently a Bucknell student) visited one of the internally displaced persons camps in the area of Gulu. From the camps, he interviewed people who had been affected by the civil war both directly and indirectly. Everyone living in the camp had been forced to move out of their communities and into the camps because of fear of the rebels attacking their communities. Most of the people in the camps had their communities burnt down by the rebels or had friends or close relatives who were killed by the LRA rebels. While at the camp in Gulu, Muyambi recognized that the people of Gulu needed more than just a home, mattresses and medication or water. There was a great need for sustainable development. It is this need in the camps that convinced Muyambi to initiate BAP at Bucknell. BAP is not just helping the people in Uganda, but planning to reach out wherever there is need. Thus, wherever poverty is, BAP will be there too. Contact Us: Muyambi Muyambi, BAP Founder Janice Butler, BAP Advisor
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