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Bikers for Mandela Day Ride to Keep Girls in School!
As has become a tradition, and as part of the Nelson Mandela centenary celebrations, bikers from across South Africa will ride for charity to mark Mandela Day next month.
Bikers for Mandela Day in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, will this year rally in aid of “Keep a Girl Child in School”. The aim is to collect sanitary pads for the three million girls who miss school annually because they cannot afford basic sanitary products.
The initiative, which was started in 2010 by Nelson Mandela’s former personal assistant, Zelda la Grange, is aimed at celebrating Madiba’s legacy by helping the less fortunate. Bikers across the country are encouraged to participate by arranging a ride in their own cities, or by joining the mass rallies planned in Cape Town and Johannesburg on 14 and 15 July, respectively.
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.
Prospective riders can register for either rally, free of charge, at https://www.nelsonmandela.org/nelson-mandela-100 . Participants are asked to bring one pack of sanitary pads – or as many as they can afford or carry – for the ride. All the products donated will be distributed amongst underprivileged girls by Bikers for Mandela Day project partner, Mimi Women – a proudly South African organisation that makes, sells and distributes sanitary pads. Representatives from the company will also be selling pads at both the Cape Town and Johannesburg events.
To enable those unable to join the planned event, local- and internationally, can donate towards the Bikers for Mandela Day initiative. A crowdfunding page has been created in support of Mimi Women. To donate via GivenGain, visit https://www.givengain.com/e/bikersformandeladay2018/.
