Marginpar supports the Old Legs Tour 2019
Pedalling to raise money awareness for Zimbabwean pensioners.
On June first, 2019, a group of 10 middle aged to elderly mountain bike riders rode out of Harare and head north in the general direction of Mt Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest free-standing mountain and Africa’s highest peak. They ride on the roads less travelled, traveling 2,900 kilometres with a total elevation gain of 36,000 meters. Which is the equivalent of Mt Everest times four time. They rode on mountain bikes, mostly because they don’t have road bikes and because of dodgy roads. They average somewhere between 100 and 120 kilometres per day, Old Legs and mountains permitting.
The team: “We’re riding the Tour to raise money and awareness for the Zimbabwean old age pensioners. The generation that built Zimbabwe have had their pensions, their life savings and their wealth eroded and reduced to nothing by thirty years of mismanagement and silly economics. They now need our help. The Old Legs 2019 Tour is targeting to raise over $120,000 for ZANE, Pensioner’s Aid Harare and the Bulawayo Help Network. Between them, our chosen charities look after over 1,800 pensioners across Zimbabwe, providing them with food, medicines and somewhere to call home, plus lots of love and hugs. They also facilitate cataract operations, hearing aids, and the list goes on. In addition to their work with the aged, the charities also fund a clubfoot correction program, successfully treating over 2,600 children to date, a prosthetic limb program for landmine victims and provide treatments for children with hearing impairment.”