Detailed description (English): Desired Change
Tbilisi is modern busy city, biking helps our city grow healthier, stronger, and more connected. Not everyone experiences the benefits of bicycling; barriers like cost, safety, and bike storage can prevent people from accessing or using bicycles. we’re working to make biking accessible to more people. We work with residents to develop unique, neighborhood-based programming, bike rides, and events that help build healthier communities here in Tbilisi.
Proposed Solution
In Georgia, there aren't many bikes and they are even less used by women. We recycle used bicycles from Germany and Switzerland to refit them in Tbilisi. Together with our friends we set up a do-it-yourself bicycle workshop, the first workshop for bicycle maintenance in and around Tbilisi.
those who want to experience bicycling would be able to participate in volunteering program learn more with professional cyclists and build bicycles from recycled parts. renewed bicycles will be accessible for participants at any time to use for transportation in Tbilisi.
As a organizer of "Tbilisi Bicycle Group" I made space in my flat and my yard for workshop which is accessible at any time for local cyclists who want to repair his or her own bicycle.
the space is in the center of Tbilisi near opera house so it is comfortable for others to find it.
we created emergency service for cyclists who are in trouble and can't fix their bicycles on go, so they can post on our cyclist group on "Facebook" and the cyclist who see this post first and is close enough can help him.
Sustainability
We love Tbilisi and bikes. So we put our two loves together, creating a Tbilisi Bicycle Group on a mission to broaden access to cycling and its benefits. Our vision: to help build a vibrant community in which people of all backgrounds use bicycles to stay healthy and connected. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to choose active and healthy transportation regardless of income, education, or background – and this is the motivation behind everything that we do.
Group members help create a sustainable environment and community. We would love to see people began exploring the neighborhoods of Tbilisi by bike, getting to know their neighbors, and learning the history of their surroundings. We hope soon members of the local community will donate bikes they don’t need for people ho willing to own one. In this way, the bicycle will be a tool for empowerment.
Place we created is the nest for local cyclists and foreigner tourists as well.
Target group(s): youngsters, students, especially women who have some difficulties to start cycling because of social beliefs and all society itself
Expected Outcomes: We love Tbilisi and bikes. So we put our two loves together, creating a Tbilisi Bicycle Group on a mission to broaden access to cycling and its benefits. Our vision: to help build a vibrant community in which people of all backgrounds use bicycles to stay healthy and connected. We believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to choose active and healthy transportation regardless of income, education, or background – and this is the motivation behind everything that we do.
Group members help create a sustainable environment and community. We would love to see people began exploring the neighborhoods of Tbilisi by bike, getting to know their neighbors, and learning the history of their surroundings. We hope soon members of the local community will donate bikes they don’t need for people ho willing to own one. In this way, the bicycle will be a tool for empowerment.
Place we created is the nest for local cyclists and foreigner tourists as well.
Partner: orbeliani online platform
Swedish Development Fund
NGO partnership for road safety
Critical Mass Tbilisi