My Story

When I was a teacher at Mpumelelo Secondary School, a rural school in a drought-stricken area of Zimbabwe, I saw how important a bike can be. Some of the students, girls and boys, had to walk or run for sometimes up to ten kilometres to get to school. They'd arrive hot and sweaty, often late, and find it difficult to concentrate in some classes as tiredness crept up on them.  A bike would have made their journey a lot quicker and helped them do well in school. 

Others in the community relied on bikes to do their work - health workers needed them to get to their patients in the most distant parts of the district and farmers used bikes to get their produce to market in Nkayi, the neighbouring town.  With the climate getting hotter, aid budgets being slashed and many governments not yet investing sufficiently in rural development, places like Mpumelelo continue to need the support of organisations like World Bicycle Relief to transform people's lives. In my experience, a bike is one of the best ways to help do this.

I'm 60 this year so I'm going to try and ride 660km in 6 days to raise enough money for World Bicycle Relief to provide 25 Buffalo Bikes to people who need them.

I'm also going to ride a route that creates the World Bicycle Relief logo on Strava.

It would be fantastic if you could support me in helping achieve my goal. Thanks!