Four times faster on the way to school by bike
With the "Davos Challenge", UBS and the UBS Optimus Foundation will donate 2,500 World Bicycle Relief bicycles to schools in South Africa. The aim: the newly gained mobility will shorten the time it takes to get to school and increase attendance rates and student performance.
Due to inadequate transportation infrastructure and long distances to school, many children in Africa do not receive an adequate education. They are therefore ill-equipped to escape poverty. In rural areas of South Africa, for example, many children have to walk six kilometers or more every day to get to school. As a result, they have less time to study, or they stay away from school altogether. Providing these children with robust bicycles for rough terrain can reduce their time to school by up to 75%. This has a positive effect on class attendance and academic performance.To date, World Bicycle Relief has delivered more than 220,000 bicycles to schoolchildren, healthcare workers and micro-entrepreneurs and trained over 1,000 bicycle mechanics in 13 countries in Africa, South America and South East Asia.Source: Press release
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