THE MAGIC of Rotary is alive and well. In a heart-warming display of international co-operation, the Rotary Club of Carroll Creek in Frederick, Maryland, USA, and the Rotary Club of Empangeni in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, have joined forces to launch a transformative project aimed at improving lives across South Africa.
This ambitious initiative, supported by numerous Rotary clubs and NGOs, including Bicycles for Humanity and Bikes for the World, has mobilised communities in the USA, Canada and Australia to collect used bicycles and ship them to needy communities in South Africa.
One of the first shipments, a 12-metre container filled with 450 bicycles, recently arrived in Galeshewe. The container, sent by the Charleston branch of Bicycles for Humanity, left the port of Charleston, South Carolina, aboard the cargo ship MSC…