Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 11 April 2011
Pedal-Powered Cinema: A Bicycle Made to Help Gorillas
Communities living within remote parts of Uganda will now be able to learn about the plight of local gorillas, thanks to the Ape Alliance and the Great Apes Film Initiative’s (GAFI) pedal-powered home cinema. The bike, invented by James Beecher, has created an opportunity for GAFI to access hard-to- reach communities with minimal resources within the great ape range states.
Thanks to James Beecher and his pedal-powered invention, GAFI will now be able to show films about how people can help to preserve the endangered gorillas in their area.
Many areas of Uganda still do not have electricity. The power-pedaled cinema is an efficient sustainable way of conveying messages to local Ugandans with little environmental impact.
‘This is an exciting development for GAFI as it allows us to take the cinema everywhere we can pedal to, increasing our access to many communities where electricity is not available. All we need is the side of a house or a big sheet to project onto and we are can screen any of our 16 films to hundreds of people at a time.’
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More than 10,000 children and adults in Uganda are set to attend the bike-powered cinemas funded by four of the Great Gorilla Project tours in July and October 2011.
To find out more about the GAFI project visit http://www.
gafi4apes.org or get involved at
www.thegreatprojects.com
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