US-based not-for-profit organisation globalbike is building momentum for its virtual challenge, Race to Kilimanjaro. The charitable challenge runs through July and August 2021 on the ROUVY virtual cycling platform, with registration via RunSignUp.
Participants can win a trip with TDA Global Cycling up until August 28th – logging miles miles and performance data in globalbike’s event portal to compete to win.
The fastest time on the distance challenge called ‘Kili to the Coast’, a 239-mile virtual challenge, will win ‘Section 4, The Masai Steppe, of the Tour D’Afrique’. The prize can be claimed for any Tour D’Afrique trip through 2024.
Second and third place prizes include CTS trainright memberships and ROUVY memberships.
For a ticketed price of US$35, athletes can enter the Kili to the Coast’ challenge as well as the altitude challenge called ‘The Kili Climb’. This is a 16,082 foot virtual ascent of Mt Kilimanjaro.
At key milestones on both of these challenges, athletes will receive exclusive video content from globalbike partner and Origin Trails CEO, Ema Motta, about cycling up Mt Kilimanjaro and cycling from Mt Kilimanjaro to the Indian Ocean.
“The Race to Kilimanjaro provides athletes with a chance to compete for fun prizes, while having a virtual experience of traveling to Tanzania and paying it forward to women entrepreneurs in rural Tanzania,” said globalbike executive director, Erin Mahaffey.
100% of the event ticket price goes directly to globalbike and globalbike programs in Tanzania. There are also opportunities to crowdfund for globalbike through the event platform upon registration to ‘make the event more meaningful and social’.
globalbike’s 2021 summer virtual challenge event benefits the US-based non-profit organization to help it… ‘harness the bicycle’s power as a tool for social impact, economic development, and women’s empowerment in Tanzania, East Africa.
‘Emboldened by cycling communities in the US and global women’s movements, globalbike equips and trains women in the last mile of rural Tanzania to run self-sustaining bike rental businesses that meet the transportation needs of their communities and propel women into sustainable careers.’
‘Bike rental businesses serve rural populations living on less than two dollars a day, enabling rural entrepreneurs to increase their incomes by 25-57% when they access an affordable bike through rental financing.
‘Women earn annual dividends from bike rental businesses, earnings that they continually reinvest in the community and in other women-led projects. globabike has over 10 years of experience researching and designing sustainable transportation solutions for rural communities in Africa. Athletes who join this challenge will receive video content about globalbike’s work in Tanzania.’
