Saturday, January 13, 2007

Waiting . . .

I wish I had something major to report, but I don't. We continue to wait for approval from the Mozambique government to ship the bikes. We have sent in all the proper documents including an inventory list of 153 bikes and 2 boxes of tools and parts. The latest delay was explained to us that our inventory value didn't match the value on our customs declaration form. It did, but the shipping agent in Mozambique used an earlier declaration form instead of the one we sent with the inventory list. This is the second shipping agent we have used because the first one proved to be unreliable. Hopefully, this agent will come through and we'll receive approval this spring and ship the bikes this summer; a year later than planned. We'll keep you posted
Thank you again to all of you who donated bikes and to all who have given money to ship them. The estimated cost to get the bikes from Montana to Mozambique is about $11,000. We have over $10,000 donated so far. Thank you so much!

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