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BikeTown Africa & The Rodale Institute
Mission
The Rodale Institute and BikeTown Africa are ideal partners in the effort to provide funds for bicycles to increase nutritional and medical support to AIDS sufferers in Africa. The Rodale Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is expressed as “Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People.” The Institute has a longstanding history in Africa, including a bicycle program in Senegal. BikeTown Africa, founded by Rodale Inc., publisher of Bicycling magazine, is designed to provide bicycles to assist AIDS sufferers in Africa.
Project
Bicycling Magazine¹s BikeTown Africa program is in its third year, having delivered more than 700 bikes to groups fighting HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. This fall, the project will deliver another 1,000 bikes to healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Health care workers will use the bikes to distribute anti-retroviral drugs and provide home care to people infected with HIV. They will also disseminate information about how people can protect themselves from HIV and on the importance of being tested for the virus. Doing this work on foot, workers in remote areas can sometimes see only one or two people in each day with bicycles it is anticipated that that number could rise to as many as five visits per day.
The Rodale Institute and BikeTown Africa would like to expand bicycle programs in Senegal in 2008. BikeTown would assist AIDS sufferers and provide a way for farmers in the region to deliver their healthy vegetable products to nearby markets.
To Donate
If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to help buy bikes for our 2008 program in Africa, please follow the link below. A donation of $100 will buy and maintain a bike. Donations of any size are welcome and appreciated. All funds donated to BikeTown Africa through The Rodale Institute will be used for the sole purpose of paying the costs of the BikeTown Africa project.
For more information about Bicycling Magazine's BikeTown Africa project, click here.
