WHAT WE WANT TO DO:
We will work with different water sanitation aid organizations such
as Engineers Without Borders and The World Water Organization to plan a route that stops at various
project sites, helping them maintain current status information of established
projects. We want to pedal to these volunteer opportunities, never “bringing”
technology with us but merely offering a hand and an ear to the communities we
bike through and stay with along the way. We want to see how each project has taken
to each individual community, in order to promote appropriate, culturally
specific, viable solutions to global sanitation issues.
WHY BICYCLES?
Bikes,
unlike other forms of transportation, allow you to be completely immersed in
your surroundings. They provide near complete autonomy, while being
incredibly efficient and relatively quick. They are an appropriate
technology, don’t use much material, don’t require energy inputs (other than
food) to motate, and are universally used by the rich and the poor.
We
are fascinated and passionate about the positive affects that bicycles have
upon communities, and how a bike path running through town literally changes
peoples lives. We engage the spaces and places that physically create our
community in a more authentic way by riding a bike, and in this way, we
believe, bikes slowly seduce people into caring about the place that they live
in, making happier, healthier, more conscientious citizens.
As
young citizens of this planet we are curious, eager to learn, and eager to help
create a more just global community. We want to PEDAL to these learning
experiences.
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