Recycle-A-Bike Program

Buffalo's Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB) program is in its fifth year at Enterprise Charter School as an after school initiative for at-risk youth within the City of Buffalo. Our mission is to teach the skills associated with bicycle repair and maintenance, safety, and promote health, environmental issues and community engagement. RAB instructs up to 40 students per semester from Monday to Thursday as part of the after school program at Enterprise Charter School. RAB activity teaches problem solving and creates trained bicycle mechanics while positively impacting our environment by reducing the amount of unused bicycles going to the waste stream, curtailing car emissions and circulating bicycles back into the community to those who otherwise could not afford one.

Recycle-A-Bike program has been active at Enterprise Charter School since 2003 and won the “Bronze Commitment to Education” award from the Buffalo Alliance for Education in 2007. Through this program, and our additional Recycle-A-Bike programs with Baker Victory Services, Bennett Park Montessori, the Buffalo Youth Hostel, the Massachusetts Avenue Project and public schools 18, 27 and 77, youth are able to build their own bicycles from refurbished parts while learning bicycle safety and repair.

Since August of 2001, RAB has recycled hundreds of bicycles back into the community, giving countless students the chance to lean basic mechanic skills, increased safety awareness, express their creativity, gain a sense of pride of their own accomplishments and learn how their actions can impact our health and the health of our communities.