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Wicklow couple make fresh appeal for bikes to gift to Ukrainian refugees.

The Morning Show

Thursday, 11 January 2024 - 5 minutes

A couple living in Bray, who set up a scheme to provide bikes for Ukrainian refugees as a vital means of local transport, have made a fresh appeal for donations as more people arrive from the war-torn country, while others are relocated to rural settings.
Philip Carey and Claudia Schmid have been running a free bike scheme since May, 2022, with great success, and so far have deployed hundreds of bikes to refugees in south Dublin and north Wicklow.



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