阅读理解It's not often that two problems add up to one solution, but Mr Than Tun Win has made it happen. His programme LessWalk takes the problem of wasted shared bikes and turns them into an easy way for students in Myanmar to travel a long way to school.
In the last few years, companies of shared bikes began taking up streets. But it didn't take long before there were too many bikes. Some companies went out of business, leaving behind thousands of new shared bikes.
Mr Than Tun Win realised that these bikes could do good for students in Myanmar: Some of them travel an hour or more on foot every day to school. " If they spend less time on the way, they can have more time to study and have better chance to find good jobs, " he said.
Soon Mr Than Tun Win raised around $400, 000 and bought shared bikes and shipped them to Myanmar. It wasn't easy — there was much work in moving the bikes from one country to another.
Though LessWalk began in March 2019, the programme has brought 7, 200 bikes into Myanmar that year. Mr Than Tun Win hopes to bring in 100, 000 bikes and expand(扩展) the programme to Laos and Cambodia.