Sunday, June 7, 2009

Biking for a Cause


























I tried out biking many times across the Swiss Alps, every time its a different experience.
But today my biking experience is totally difference, today I did it for a cause.

Today, I attended a biking event organized by slowup foundation with a support of Procap.
Procap is an NGO which look after the need of the disabled people. Slowup has a annual biking lined up which take place at different parts of the country.

Today's event tool place at Sierre/Siders, a french county in Swiss Alps. In the event, I was given a tasked to support a semi-blind. His name was Hanspeter, he is 68 years old man.

I was asked to guide him and make sure guy landed safely in at the base. We both covered 20-30 km track, he was on inline skates and I was on bicycle. Though, because of lannguage barrier, we did face some initial hiccups, but in the end we both managed well and ended the journey successfully.

I will certainly going to attend some more such events in near future.

For more information about Slowup and Procap visit the sites listed below.

http://www.procap.ch/

http://www.slowup.ch


Thanks&Regards,
Mohit
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