Community Project:
BIKES OR BUST 2006

Hope Has A Face donates nearly 1,000 tricycles

In 2005, Wal-Mart and the Salvation Army teamed
up on the Bikes or Bust Program to provide truckloads of bicycles to displaced Gulf Coast residents. Untold numbers of bicycles, tricycles and scooters were washed away in Katrina’s wake and 2005 Bikes or Bust helped replace some of those bicycles lost.

For 2006, the Salvation Army and County 99 disk jockeys visited a different Wal-Mart store in the Gulf Coast each day for a week and invited Wal-Mart shoppers to purchase a bike and donate it outside the store to for distribution to needy families and individuals.

To help build interest in the program, Hope Has A Face Foundation offered to match the first 100 bicycles purchased at each Wal-Mart store with a tricycle. The public responded and Hope Has A Face purchased almost 1,000 tricycles from Wal-Mart which were donated to The Salvation Army’s Mississippi Command for distribution through their Angel Tree program.