Eleven year old happy to “do something good for other country.”Kristian is convinced that he has done something both useful and difficult. That’s why he looks so satisfied, with his tiny freckles dancing on the still round face of a child that hasn’t yet reached puberty.
Gathering and sending almost 400 bicycles from Norway to Cuba was a great task that demanded all of his persistence and creativity.
He has finally achieved his objective and fulfilled his dream of seeing his friends from the Cuban locality of Esmeralda riding the bikes.
His classmates and neighbors in Nittedal, back in Norway, gave him those bicycles, which they were not going to use any more. He managed to use them to “do something good for other country.”
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