Bike club, so much fun!

We are running a bike club every saturday morning in Maphephetaini- a rural community in the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Many of us take for granted the things that we grew up doing and those things that were made available to us. Bikes are another item on the long list of things that the children living in these remote communities will never have the chance of owning.

I remember when my little brother first learnt how to ride a bike......he was 4 years old and we were on holiday in america. there he was in his new Chicago Bears uniform riding up and down the street for hours until he got it right. The children that we work with will never have a chance to own their own bike let alone go to america and have a Chicago Bears uniform. I dont even remember learning to ride a bike! See how we take it for granted. we all know that at some point during our childhood we will learn to ride a bike, its a given!

Now Project O is giving these children the chance to learn something that every child should have the chance to learn....how to ride a bike.

Every saturday morning our staff arrive to the Chief's compound and are greated by about 100 children, all are waiting to go on a bike ride!
Each week a different group of children come and go on a bike ride, whne the ride is over they return to the compound for a life, moral, biblical lesson.

The club also promotes friendship, teamwork, fitness and hope.

We currently have 30 mountain bikes, with the hopes of building on that and getting 100 by the end of next year. We have had 4 national sports magazines across South Africa do write ups on the project and we are vrey excited about the impact that it is having on these children.

All this is possible thanks to Group 5, Sean's Power Cycles and Action Pad Print.