Lifestyle: Bikes improve lives - World Bicycle Relief is presenting this message again this year at the Eurobike in Friedrichshafen. From August 26 to 30, 2014, the international aid organization will be exhibiting in the café at the Sram booth the enormous potential of bicycles for development cooperation: mobility and independence for people who otherwise walk miles every day. A bike gives them access to schools, water points, hospitals and jobs. Also on display at the stand is the Buffalo bike, which was specifically designed for the conditions of rural developing regions. A cargo bike that symbolizes strength and departure.
Kristina Jasiunaite, Managing Director of World Bicycle Relief Germany explains: "The Eurobike is a wonderful opportunity to show an often unrecognized dimension of the bicycle exactly where the heart for bicycles beats highest. Thank you to all of the bike industry supporters without whom the success of 190.906 Buffalo Bikes would not have been possible. At the same time, we hope that our movement will continue to grow and that cycling enthusiasts will build bridges to other sectors, for example."
For the past nine years, World Bicycle Relief uunder the motto The Power of Bicycles Buffalo bikes in developing and disaster struck regions, primarily in rural Africa. The lack of transport is often one of the reasons why children do not go to school, people live in poverty and die of curable diseases. With bicycles they become mobile and can improve their lives by their own efforts.
Supporters from the bicycle industry
The Dutch bicycle bag manufacturer Basil has set itself the task of supporting the Word Bicycle Relief educational program in Zambia and giving schoolchildren with bicycles access to education. For the third time, Basil is giving away more than a thousand bags to visitors who donate two euros (or more) in return.
The helmet manufacturer nut case starts with the initiative "Nutcase Unframed" a unique art event for World Bicycle Relief at the fair: On August 27, three international artists will spend a day painting several canvases at the Nutcase stand (Open Air Grounds West) right in front of the visitors and making their creativity tangible. The works of art will then be auctioned off and the proceeds will be donated.
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