SWEETBIKE
Changing Lives Together
by bike to school - video
Changing lives together
Since 2008 at Sweetdale and since 2016 at the Skills Center, the non-profit organisation rsw Development has championed improving the everyday lives of the poorest children, young people and orphans in South Africa.
We are proud to introduce the SWEETbike which is a division that deals with assembling and delivering quality bicycles to schools. The programme aims to enhance matriculate results, the attendance performance of the students while their health is also improved.
What sweetbike stands for
We, the founders of rsw Development and our descendants grew up in Switzerland and have a proven track record of building and managing businesses from the ground up. We rely on Swiss core values like innovation, efficiency, reliability, integrity and perseverance. We live these values every day. Vocational training as a central concept of the Swiss education system is applied in our programs to provide access to high quality training and enable young people to eventually make a living from these skills.
Over the past 12 year local businesses, communities, schools as well as public departments and organizations in KZN have built great confidence in our work and proudly endorse our programs. Most of our lokal workers are integral members of these communities. This secures a strong connection and broad acceptance of our support.
How we work
In areas in which most people rely on walking, a bicycle makes a significant difference. We focus on school-based cycling as a means of transportation for students to school as we believe that “one bicycle one leaner” is a tool that can be used in the rural areas to achieve academic, health, and social success.
A bicycle can break through the vicious circle of poverty. Imagine the tap is not just a few steps away, instead you have to walk several kilometres to the well. High-quality secondhand import bicycles increase children's mobility to their education. Anyone with a bicycle can cover considerably greater distances - which leaves more time for learning.