BamBike is developing free immersive virtual tours of Philippine landmarks complete with eLearning educational tools to support students and teachers in the country.
Quality education is one of those things that is a luxury but should be a necessity. To be able to enrich the mind, nurture the soul, ignite passion in the heart and inspire leaders of tomorrow is a great and under-appreciated job.
In public school systems around the world however, there are often large setbacks, and shortcomings when it comes to academic infrastructure. This is even more apparent in third to fourth world countries where more pressing priorities may lie elsewhere. Private institutions and non-profits boldly step forward to do what they can to ameliorate the state of academia where needed and have helped to create positive change in the lives of many.
This is what BamBikes’s founder Bryan McClelland and his team have set their sights and hearts on for 2021: accessible quality education.
What is BamBikes
BamBikes is a socio-ecological enterprise based in the Philippines that hand-makes bamboo bicycles with fair-trade labour and sustainable building practices. He has spent his career as an environmental consultant, ecotourism developer, social entrepreneur and educator and continues to look forward, thinking of how else he can help.
Who is Bryan McLelland
Apart from founding BamBikes, Bryan is a professor and director of sustainability at Enderun Colleges where he established the country’s first program on social entrepreneurship, food systems and ecotourism development. He also heads up the Bamboo Innovation Group Foundation which aims to create climate-resilient communities and is focused on Bamboo architecture and design. Through BamBikes, Bryan combined his passion for sustainability with education by developing programs for scholarships, sponsoring a preschool teacher, and a weekly feeding program for children, as well as a bamboo nursery for reforestation.
This time around, Bryan is taking things a step further and is adapting to the times by pivoting to focus on eLearning.