{"id":7292,"date":"2020-10-08T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T11:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/about-us\/geschichte\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T13:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:50:34","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/about-us\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>30 years ago, the first 300 recycling bikes left Switzerland for Ghana. To date, 300,000 more have followed. The \u00abBicycles for Africa\u00bb program of the Drahtesel bicycle workshop initiated by Paolo Richter has developed into an independent organization that creates perspectives with bicycles in Switzerland, Germany and seven African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago, the first 300 recycling bikes left Switzerland for Ghana. To date, 300,000 more have followed. The \u00abBicycles [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/about-us\/history\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5727,"parent":6168,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/timeline.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7292","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27623,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7292\/revisions\/27623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}