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Our event proudly supports the following charity projects
World Bicycle Relief
World Bicycle Relief empowers people and communities through life-changing bicycles. We are
committed to helping people conquer the challenge of distance, achieve independence and thrive.
Nearly one billion people in rural regions of the world live in communities far from the nearest paved
road, walking for miles each day just to survive. On foot, individuals race against the sun to complete
everyday tasks. Distance is a barrier to attending school, receiving healthcare, delivering goods to
market and other critical services needed to thrive.
World Bicycle Relief partners with communities to deliver specially designed, locally assembled,
rugged bicycles for people in need. We’ve developed an efficient, innovative, and scalable model to
empower communities of students, health workers, and entrepreneurs in rural regions with life-
changing mobility.
Supported by the European Rotary Cycling Fellowship, World Cycling Relief provides the opportunity
for individuals and entire communities to create a lasting impact that will last for generations to
come.
CYCLING FOR TREES
Rotary Club Prague International’s cycling group raises funds for the planting of trees in
collaboration with the Czech Republic’s leading environmental organisation, Nadace Partnerstvi.
From April to October each year, cyclists collect for each kilometre pedalled.
In the autumn, hundreds of volunteers plant trees along strategically created trails in the Czech
Republic to provide hydration and wind breaks as well as preventing soil erosion. Each form part of
a network of Freedom Trails designed to appreciate the liberty enjoyed by the country’s citizens
since the 1989 Velvet Revolution put paid to totalitarianism.
In 2021 RCPI raised contributed over CZK 100,000 to plant an alley near Příbram, in memory of the
political prisoners forced to work in the nearby uranium mine. Last year the club contributed even
more funds to plant a special trail in Račiněves, north of Prague below the (Říp area). This major
event was actively supported by the Czech Prime Minister and attended by many distinguished
guests. Named the "Sir Nicholas Winton Alley" to commemorate a heroic actions of Sir Nicholas
who’s kindertransport trains he arranged in 1939 sent 669 Jewish children to Britain who would
have otherwise been killed in the Holocaust.
RCPI has further ambitious and exciting plans to support the Nadace Partnestvi in its goal to plant
10,000,000 trees along trails across the Czech Republic representing one for each citizen, thereby
providing important environmental protection as well as saluting freedom.
END POLIO NOW
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years and the goal of ridding the world
of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary International has reduced
polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect
nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have
played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working
to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio
could paralyse as many as 200,000 children each year.
Epic Ride to 4-Days in Prague 2024 from Germany
Bicycle ride from Paderborn and Frankfurt in four days will be supporting the WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF
Epic Ride to 4-Days in Prague 2024 from Austria
Bicycle ride from Perg in two days will be supporting the END POLIO CHARITY