Cycle of Love is a yearly bicycle ride from Birmingham, AL to Atlanta, GA (~165 miles) to draw attention to the struggles of brothers and sisters that live with daily injustice. Every year we take part in this event to raise awareness about (and funds for) our fight for the future of the youth of South Atlanta.
We didn’t join just to raise funds for our youth development program. We formed a team including five of our bike shop kids to represent the South Atlanta Bike Shop. Yes, that made things exponentially more difficult than just riding 165 miles ourselves. But we can’t claim to be serious about youth development and not include these young leaders in an event like this even if we have to confront the status quo of how fundraising is supposed to be done.
Some of our team ended up riding only one section of the trip, some rode all but one section. Of the teens, one was able to complete the entire trip with us. All of us were changed by this experience.
As of this morning we raised $700 (Thank You!) but that’s not the final number yet as we are still waiting for some of the pledged donations to arrive. You know who you are! 