Reintegrating people with bike repair in Oslo

Mar 21, 2025Norway

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Norwegian bike repair shop supports reintegration of people with former drug problems

Paahjul Oslo is a professional bicycle workshop owned by Kirkens Bymisjon. In addition to repairing bicycles, Paahjul provides job training to people with previous drug problems. By repairing bicycles at the workshop, people are doing something good for both the environment and society.

The workshop is based in Barcode in Oslo (Norway) and accepts all kinds of bicycles. The workshop manager and skilled bicycle mechanics work side by side with employees who are undergoing on-the-job training.

The initiative is sponsored by Church City Mission (in Norwegian: Kirkens Bymisjon), a diaconal foundation in Norway doing social work within alcohol care, elderly care, child welfare, mental health care and among prostitutes. The foundation also engages in religious activities with pastoral care, preaching and church work.

For people with previous drug problems
The Paahjul initiative provides a bicycle repair and reuse service, and at the same time provides a social service for the recovery and reintegration of young people who have had drug addiction problems.