Oh, My Health...There Is Hope!
Empowering Inclusivity: How the Alinker Walking Bike is Changing the Game with BE Alink
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:24:26
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Synopsis
BE Alink was born (1964) and raised in the Netherlands. is a trained woodworker and restoration architect with a total of 20+ years of project and program management. She left NL in 1998 for what became 10 years of project management of reconstruction work in Kenya, The Sudan, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Kosovo, of which 3,5 years in Afghanistan. BE is the founder and inventor of the Alinker walking bike, which she refers to as a vehicle of change. BE's reverse design practices/philosophy lead to the Alinker, which is not built for a "body-with-a-problem" but for who we are, active and engaged. BE has built her company into a movement of people showing up for each other. Years ago, she said: "I dream of a world where the dismissed people of today are our leaders of tomorrow”. BE employs Alinker users (otherwise unemployed) and pays everybody a living wage. The Alinker has certified BCorp status, she is a SheEO venture, is more than carbon neutral, and practically plastic-free. The Alinker company is built to cre