CAP AIDS | The Canada Africa Partnership on AIDS

BIKE to CAP AIDS | Where have the bikes gone?

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To date over 130 bikes have been distributed through the Bike to CAP AIDS campaign. They have gone to grassroots organisations in Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, South Africa and Malawi.

Tanzania

¥	30 bicycles were given to CPAR Tanzania which will then distribute the bicycles to peer educators to carry out HIV/AIDS outreach work and education in Karatu district.
¥	8 bicycles were donated to ALPHA Tanzania (Arusha Living Positively with HIV/AIDS). The bicycles will be used by association members (there are currently approximately 180) to allow for easier transportation.

Uganda

¥ 16 bicycles were given to the Lira Neighbourhood Women's Group so that their members could serve more HIV-affected families with education, advocacy and home-based care services

¥ 9 bicycles were provided to the Agwata Traditional Birth Attendants Association so that member midwives could provide more timely services to a greater number of pregnant women and children

¥ 5 bicycles were give to the Zion Fire Women's Association to assist in their work in the Nsambya Police Barracks on the outskirts of Kampala, caring for AIDS orphans, providing prevention education and to support their new mushroom cultivation business, which is providing women with living with HIV income to eat more nutritiously and purchase needed medications.

¥ 5 bicycles were provided to Dyer Tek - an AIDS Service Organization located in the Gulu District of Northern Uganda

¥ 6 Bicycles were provided to AIDS Mission for Adolescents and Children (AMAC) to support their community outreach and care efforts

Ethiopia

¥ HAPSCO (Hiwot HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Organization) which works in the large slums in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia received 5 bicycles. HAPSCO currently cares for over 500 orphans and with CAP AIDS support is training young leaders on HIV prevention.

¥ Mekdim Ethiopia , an organisation that works with AIDS orphans and people living with HIV received 5 bicycles.

South Africa

¥ James House in Hout Bay , South Africa received 6 bicycles, where they are being used to encourage school attendance. Orphans who live long distances from the school are being provided with bikes to get to and from school.

¥ 19 bikes were given to the Arisen Women's Foundation in South Africa . The Arisen Women's Foundation consists of 50 local women from the MitchellÕs Plain district of Cape Town who provide home-based care to AIDS patients in Stage 3 and 4 of the disease. Many of these women were walking upwards of 12 km a day, and were, as a result, very excited to receive their bicycles.

Malawi

¥ 20 bikes were provided to CAYO (Counselling of Adolescents and Youth Organization) in Malawi . CAYO had received 10 bikes from CAP AIDS the previous year, and they were put to such good use that they requested more. With the bikes, CAYO has been able to extend their peer to peer "Education for Life Campaign" to even more communities

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