Meet Tim
Tim was young, unemployed, far from his hometown of Boston and lacking a high school diploma. After a series of dead end jobs and losing his apartment, he placed an ad on Craigslist (www.craigslist.org) to trade building skills for a free housing situation. He found a family that needed some remodeling done which didn't take up much of his time. He found he had time to think about the next steps in his life and get his GED. He still wasn't ready for college, though. Instead, he planned a trip by bicycle with his best friend from the East Coast to Oregon and even wrote a few bike manufacturers to sponsor his trip. One of them agreed!
If you don't have a bike and you want one, some communities have earn-a-bike programs, where you can learn to fix up a bike you earn through community service. For information, see www.bikecollectives.org or www.ibike.org.
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