Skating for a good cause
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Fundraising for WorldBicycleRelief

Skating long distance for me is about freedom, mobility, and empowerment.

I mean, I’m hoping for it to be all about fun as well, but I guess, I’ll only find that out once on the road being stuck on bumpy roads with aching thighs.

For me, Human Powered Transport is about being free in decisions and movements to be made. About traveling slowly, consciously and powered by my own body. It’s a privileged position to choose this way of transport.

However, for many people in the world, getting from A to B is a daily struggle. In regions, where there is neither good roads nor public transport, millions of people need to stay at home stay away from scool, stay away from health institutions due to the lack of mobility.

Surely, in those regions, skates cannot do the job and walking can be too tired for long distances.

However, a bicycle can change lives – it can give access to education, jobs, health institutions and provide independence. And there is a beautiful organization enabling humans around the world to ride their bicycles for freedom, mobility and empowerment.

World Bicyle Relief is an organization which supplies people in need in rural regions with bicycles in order to create possibilities through mobility!

With Rolling from Cologne to Cote D’Azur – I want to raise awareness and support World Bicycle Relief (WBR) by fundraising for their important mission.