Essential Eats Distributors did an amazing job organizing a bicycle delivery day at Heart Butte school. Free Cycles feels honored to have been invited and to have played a role in helping with the project. A huge thanks to Sara of EED for arranging this multi-faceted and logistically challenging event. The large scale coordination of many organizations across the state to pull this off was truly impressive.

Overall, delivering bikes to Heart Butte School was a success! We traveled approximately two hundred and fourteen miles to Heart Butte school with stands, tools, parts, and bikes on Monday, May 14th. A combination of Free Cycles staff and volunteers worked from 10-2pm teaching kids how to fix their bicycle and providing 64 free bicycles for kids in need. There were also other volunteers who came from a diversity of Montana communities ready to lend a hand.

Another exciting aspect of the project was that bikes also arrived from Bozeman and Helena. A total of 124 bicycles later, there are many happy kids on the Blackfeet Nation now pedaling around. Because of this project, many youth received their first bicycle ever. Elementary students in grades K-4 all received a bicycle. The 6th grade class also received bicycles. For the graduating senior class, there were 12 adult size mountain bicycles.

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped our organization play a role by working on the bikes at Free Cycles, delivering the bikes, and fitting the kids to bikes on the day of delivery. We appreciate everyone who contributed financially to make this project happen as well. It is really beautiful to see Montana come together for an important and special cause.

Thank you to Heart Butte ❤️ 🗻 for welcoming us to their community and land, what a spectacular place.