Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 22:51:49 GMT -5
It's time to get to know one of the faces of solidarity through second-hand bikes! Do you sign up for our proposal? Keep reading and learn how a bicycle can be the axis of an altruistic project. Bikes for Life and Bicycles without Borders Bicis para la Vida promotes the donation of bicycles that, after being repaired in a workshop by disabled people, are delivered free of charge to disadvantaged groups. What a great idea! The Alberto Contador Foundation is a non-profit institution that participates, together with the Pinto Disabled Association, the Ananta Foundation and the SEUR Foundation, in the initiative. © Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Intermón Thanks to this joint project, 10 people with intellectual disabilities have employment within the bicycle reception and repair workshop, located in the town of Pinto, in Madrid, and groups at risk of social exclusion can access them. If you are interested in being part of this initiative, you can access from here the list of SEUR stores in the different Spanish towns and even in neighboring Portugal, where you can leave your bicycle and thus join this program that promotes mutual aid.
Don't hesitate: if you have a bike that you no longer use, this may be a good time to give it a better life! Bicycles without Borders is a non-profit social project of the Utopia Foundation that was born in April 2012 by Romà Boule, and that also wants to convey to us that a bicycle can change a person's existence. Through a bike they want to transform their world, because Asia Mobile Number List when young people finish compulsory basic education, if they do not have a means of transportation to travel to the institute every day and be able to continue their studies, they are forced to stay at home. That's why it's vital! The objective of Bicycles without Borders is to collect old or used bikes in any Spanish town. Afterwards, they are repaired and painted yellow in their job placement workshop, where they generate 25 jobs for people at risk of social exclusion and, finally, they are delivered to people without resources who need them to go to work or school. thus improving their quality of life. There are already 1,977 bicycles that have found new owners in Girona, Lorca, Pamplona, Honduras or Burkina Faso. If you want to join this project, you can access the collection points that Bicicletas sin Fronteras has in Spanish territory from here.
You will see how you find one very close to your house! Surely now you look with new eyes at that old bicycle that previously seemed like an obsolete object. Remember that there are many ways to cooperate: you just have to find yours! How to practice solidarity sports with Oxfam Intermón Don't you know Trailwalker yet ? This initiative of our NGO allows sport to be more than just exercise because it revolves around solidarity and fosters camaraderie. The challenge is to travel 100 km walking or running together with three friends and two more people who will act as a support team. The goal is to end the injustices that continue to limit the lives of thousands of people in many parts of the planet: poverty, hunger, lack of access to drinking water... And what better way than this? Trailwalker-oxfam-intermon 2nd edition of the Oxfam Intermón Trailwalker, Madrid 2015 © Silvia Dominguez / Oxfam Intermón In 2011, the first edition of Trailwalker took place in our country. Since then, and thanks to all the people who have participated, more than 2.5 million euros have already been raised, which make the NGO's cooperation and humanitarian aid projects possible, and which prevent, for example, women and girls They have to walk every day in search of water. Remember that talking about Trailwalker is talking about sport with values .