The Eleanor Foundation will ship its 50th container full of used bicycles this week.
Allister Carey began the Eleanor Foundation in honour of his daughter who died in a cycling accident in London in 2011.
He works with Re-Cycle, a UK based charity that mends old bikes and ships them to countries like South Africa, Sierra Leone, Zambia and The Gambia.
He says in Africa, a bicycle can be life changing:
"I come across children who walk seven or eight kilometres in the morning to get to school and then have to walk back home.
"That's four of five hours out of your day, while on a bicycle you can do it in a fraction of the time."
Allister says people contact him directly and he often collects the no longer needed bikes and stores them in a greenhouse until enough are ready to be shipped to Re-Cycle in the UK.
With the help of Guernsey's cycle shops, the bikes are checked over and have their pedals and handlebars turned inwards so that more can be packed into containers, which Alderney Shipping take for no charge.
They go to Re-Cycle's base for further maintenance then are shipped to various African countries and distributed by Re-Cycle's partners on the ground.
Alongside the bikes go spares, which Allister says are vital:
"An inner tube in Africa, even though it's got a puncture, is incredibly valuable.
"Virtually everybody who cycles has got a puncture repair kit, knows how to use it, and can do it in virtually no time at all."
Allister says people in Guernsey are generous with their no longer needed bikes:
"Guernsey has provided 5,000 bikes, that's 3% of the total number of bikes.
"And when you consider the population of Guernsey, to the population of the UK, that's a phenomenal number of bikes."
The 49th and 50th containers with more than 200 Guernsey bikes will be shipped on Tuesday, (11 November).
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