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BikeTown Africa & The Rodale Institute
Mission
The Rodale Institute is proud to be a partner of BikeTown Africa, a project that demonstrates how a single bicycle can change someone's life. By giving bicycles to health care workers who provide home-based care to AIDS sufferers, BikeTown Africa has dramatically increased the number of patients each worker can visit in a single day. The Rodale Institute, a non-profit organization whose mission is expressed as "Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People," has a longstanding history in Africa.
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| Photo (c) Keith Cozzens |
Project
BikeTown Africa was founded by Rodale Inc., the publisher of Bicycling magazine. The program is in its fifth year, having delivered more than 1700 bicycles to groups fighting HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa Swaziland, and Tanzania. This year, BikeTown Africa will deliver another 540 bicycles to healthcare workers in Gambia, Malawi, and Rwanda.
These workers will use the bicycles to provide home-based care to people infected with HIV. They will distribute anti-retroviral drugs and help care for people living with AIDS, who often suffer from other conditions and diseases, such as TB. 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 a day, but with bicycles, that number can rise to as many as five visits per day.
The Rodale Institute and BikeTown Africa would like to expand this program throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and we depend on charitable donations to sustain and grow our initiatives.
If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to help buy bikes for our 2010 program in Africa, please follow the link below. 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.
Building Bikes Delivering Bikes to Health Care Workers