CLYNFYW Care Farm’s Wheelie Good Idea project – which distributes mobility aids to vulnerable people overseas – has passed an important milestone.

Back in July 2014 the Abercych-based community interest company sent their first shipping container full of refurbished mobility aids to Durban, South Africa.

This week their 20th container left the farm, bound for Nairobi, Kenya, where it will be distributed amongst some of the most vulnerable people in East Africa.

This shipment is part of the Wheelie Good Idea project; one of the nine micro-enterprises based on the north Pembrokeshire care farm where vulnerable people repair damaged items as part of a structured activity.

“We work with the Container Ministry in Durban who are distributing the equipment to small charities and community groups,” said Jim Bowen, Clynfyw’s manager.

“In Kenya, a friend, Alex Busia, has the contacts to ensure every item gets to someone who needs it.

“We have also sent containers of donated items to Syria, through Anaya Aid, and to Kos Kindness, Greece, and we are the west Wales collection point for Care4Calais too, receiving tents and sleeping bags and passing them on to support the refugees there.

“This is an international community-based project with many people helping out in numerous ways.

“We have been donated many items that the NHS can no longer need and local WI groups give items they have knitted too.

“Bluestone Brewery have collected loads of things from their contacts. Other equipment comes from families, charity shops and closing special schools.

“And people have been so supportive in the fund-raising side of things too.”

The Clynfyw team are currently undertaking a fund-raising virtual bike ride on exercise bikes from Abercych to Nairobi.

You can find more at: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/clynfywcyclingacontainertokenya2022?fbclid=IwAR0y1Q2rhppInbBzQK_UV0kmZlSsnog4G5nk3EWBn-zZvlQ-nbOmvzg01J4