Charitable spirit flowing through Diageo staff
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The project was inspired by two of the group’s staff members north of the Border, Diane Thomson and Jennifer O’Keefe, who yesterday helped pack the items into a shipping container at its Shieldhall packaging plant in Glasgow.
The bikes will head off on a 5,400-mile journey to Ghana, and the shipping container will stay in Koblimahigu to be used as a Bicycle Empowerment Centre with locals being given maintenance skills to create a self-sustaining business for the community.
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Hide AdThomson, a supply planning manager at Diageo Shieldhall, said: “From the moment our idea was given the go-ahead our colleagues really rallied behind the project and we’ve been overwhelmed with the support from Diageo.” The project has been run with Bicycles For Humanity.