P4P collects used bicycles and sewing machines and ships them to motivated people in the developing world.
P4P seeks to spur economic development in developing countries by providing transportation for adults and children with bikes, and job opportunities in the sewing and tailoring business with sewing machines.
[1][2] The organization also seeks to reduce the number of bikes and sewing machines in landfills through these donations.
Schweidenback served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, where he noticed that his landlord, who was a carpenter, made more money than his peers because he had the only bicycle in the area and therefore spent less time traveling and more time working.
When Schweidenback returned from the Peace Corps, he began collecting discarded bikes to be shipped abroad.