By Cherrol Skosana
Bikers for Mandela Day’ Bikers for Mandela
in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation will ride this coming weekend
in aid of charity to ‘Keep a Girl Child in School’. The aim is to collect
sanitary pads for three million girls who miss school annually because they
cannot afford basic sanitary products. Bikers across the country are encouraged
to participate by arranging a ride in their cities or by joining the mass rally
planned in Cape Town and Johannesburg on the 14th and 15th
of July.
“This year’s rides will allow for more
bikers to participate in this nine-year old tradition about having fun while
doing good at the same time. Madiba believed that every small effort counts in
bring about change. My hope is that all rides of scooter bikes, superbikes and
everything with two wheels and an engine will join us to make a massive impact
to this cause. As little as R180 can
provide enough sanitary pads to keep one girl in school for an entire year, a
little can do much,” says Zelda la Grange, organiser
Over
10 000 people have directly benefited from this initiative, it has
helped to restore orphanages, delivered food parcels and blankets to old age
homes, provided stationery to schools. They continued to plant vegetable
gardens in needy communities and spruced up facilities at Rape Care centres and
police stations across South Africa.
Interested riders can register for free at
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/nelson-mandela-100. All the products donated will be distributed amongst less fortunate
girls by the “bikers for Mandela” project partner, Mimi Women- a proudly South
African organisation that makes sells and distributes sanitary pads.
On
Saturday, 14 July, bikers are invited to meet at The Grand Parade in Cape Town
CBD at 8:00am. The ride will then depart at 9:30am and travel to Drakenstein
Prison. This is a City of Cape Town support initiative.
The
Johannesburg rally will take place on Sunday, 15 July, from 8:00am at the
Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton. By 9:30am the bikers will depart to
travel to the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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