Cycling for Hope
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a bicycle, a pervasive mode of transport; cycling, a common past time among youths within communities, towns and trading centers.
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Year the initative began (yyyy)
2007
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Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram:
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Lack of “safe spaces”
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Include through sport
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic:
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Name Your Project
Cycling for Hope
Describe Your Idea
a bicycle, a pervasive mode of transport; cycling, a common past time among youths within communities, towns and trading centers.
Innovation
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
a bicycle, a pervasive mode of transport; cycling, a common past time among youths within communities, towns and trading centers.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?
Cycling for Hope is a sport event to mark the world commemorative calendar days, HIV and Aids programs (lobbying, activism, referrals, advocacy, counseling services, care and support services by youth riders of Sacrena Sporting Organization who are HIV+ infected men and women, boys and girls to challenge members of the community to bring HIV/AIDS out into the open and respond to problems faced by orphans, widows and the grandmothers, community members accessing Voluntary, Counselling and HIV Testing(VCT) available and also sharing/disclosing HIV status openly, mobilize family support to orphans an other Vulnerable groups and demonstrating cycling as away to positive living for the infected
What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change?
Cycling for Hope is a race with a multi-themed purpose with a series of stops in towns and trading centers. The themes cover orphans, HIV/AIDS and human rights. The messages will promote support for orphans; positive living for People infected with HIV/AIDS, the benefits of knowing HIV status, the importance to accessing care and support services; advocating the human rights and encouraging others through hope massages to regarding community participation.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
A nuclear group of 50 HIV+ members of both from our communities and SACRENA will provide leadership by riding and recruiting others through various marketplaces along Lake Victoria’s fishing spots in Kisumu City. Cycling for Hope tour will be based on grandma's cycling clubs already established near fish markets in these towns. Numbers of those clubs will be asked to advance to prepare activities from the day that Cycling for Hope reaches there villages. At each location IEC materials will be distributed, discussion groups and musical review will be led organized traditional and cultural troupes and dancers to attract attention and engagement for each community person. HIV+ People will be encouraged to come to Sacrena Sporting satellites to access voluntary services provided like counseling services, trainings, sports, cycling and referrals. Initially, cycling of hope events will begin modestly, and gradually build to crescendo for World AIDS Day every year.
How do you plan to grow your innovation?
In the trading center where no club exists, promotions of road shows will be done with puppetry and dramatized choral verses by Cyclists and the community geared toward moralling local people to voluntarily participate in riding with their bikes. Churches, Mosques, community based organizations, grandmothers cycling clubs and widows unions in the communities will be asked to take the lead in activities.
A series of organized rides in the villages and fish markets surrounding Lake Victoria –Kisumu city. People living with HIV/AIDS support groups under Sacrena doing sports and dancing will be enlisted to assist in publicizing the event. The 50 core riders will additionally recruit HIV+’s, youths, young teenage widows and the strong grandmothers from the existing villages’ orphans clubs, cycling clubs, widows unions, worship places, the local bicycles transporters will ride from one stage –stage other major market place around the Lake Victoria- Kisumu city.
Impact
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.
The Cycling for Hope will serve as a focus to bring the attention to AIDS orphans, those living with HIV with educational messages
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries?
We expect the activities to increase the number of individuals pledging to support one child orphan at a time, giving hope through cycling for the HIV/AIDS patients, enhancing new local cycling vent of sports, empowerment community caretakers to access health related care services, the poor and the discouraged given hope and motivation to open up about their HIV status also expect that these activities will challenge the Kenyan ministry of health and children department donors to make treatment and care and support or OVCs more widely available and much more accessible than is the case currently
How many people have you served directly?
We plan to serve more than 200,000 people directly through this event, reach 1000 people infected with HIV/AIDS, seek to advocate to the support of and visible 250 orphans basic needs, form 300 widows joining the widows union, orphans clubs formed to address the rights of the vulnerable children, treatment access for community members to access treatments at the nearby health facilities. And have developed 50 Cycling for Hope champs
How many people have you served indirectly?
We have not created this measurement but a community wide impact and change is expected
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation?
- Number of Cycling for Hope events
- Number of cyclists in each event
- Number of trading centers, villages and communities covered
- Number of People attending events at each village or trading center
- Number of partnerships developed in each event
- Number and designation topical messages passed and community declarations made
- Articles appearing in the press; radio coverage of the event
- Number of brochures and IEC materials distributed
- Number of new cyclist support groups found
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?
the main barriers could be the lack of resources to jump start this programe. The need of accommodations during the cycle tour, cycle repairs, medications and food for participants all require funding and if little resources are not there to be used on cyclists this can become a barrier.
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Sustainability
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
a) Sacrena expects that the finances of this event will be through sports sponsorships from well wishers and with the help of Changemakers and the sports for social change network volunteers,
b) Community shall play important role; bikes operators donating their own bikes to be used and rolled out to other major towns nearby in the next circle.
c) The 10% of the total funds raised from the globalgiving.com/1713 shall be used to sustain this project.
d) Referrals services to healthcare facilities, bikes purchased will be used to yearly organize this event.
If known, provide information on your finances and organization.
sacrena ghas not received any funding except through the globalgiving- www.globalgiving.com/171 we are raising to mjorly suppiort the programm of ophans support.we dio not have already exixting donors to wich could be our intretred of getting one.the sustinability we have is the liittle income generating activities we started of paultry and dairy goat.alsio the membership subscription of the0.5 USD every mebers hlp us to meet other needs like administrtion costs.we have the bank account and other activities but most of it voltariry and resources used excep the manpower and the community/church kind offerings.
What is the potential demand for your innovation?
Those seeking support and goodwill for their plight and the community at large that will be participating and may not realize what an important message the event will share. But the success of the event will fuel a community wide demand. The program also involves fundraising and bringing on board different stakeholders e.g.health facilities, sports people and other partners - the importance of their involvement will also fuel demand
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?
It is difficult to receive membership contributions and monthly renewals on a regular basis, we must ensure that the girls provide this vital service and the neighbors see the fantastic value in having a clean living space in order to have them pay for it every time. Although many may, not all will. Steady funding stream is difficult to obtain.
The Story
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
Through the boda boda operatrors, they have made us to venture into this has it has never been used anywhere.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material.
Mr. Wycliffe Mboya Ngoya is the founder and the CEO of Sacrena Sporting Organization. He has a Masters of Public Health (Nairobi University), a Masters in Christian Theology (Nairobi International School of Theology), accredited by the JG as a consultants and facilitator. He has obtained degrees in accounts and project management with Kenya School of Accountancy. Wycliffe grew up as an orphan not knowing when his parents died though grew up in the hands of relatives.
How did you hear about this contest and what is your main incentive to participate? (this is confidential)
Am the founder of the sacrena sporting organization. I am passionate about humanity. With regards to sporting for better changes I am taken as ambassador of the poor community championing and bringing out their challenges into open. am also pasturing a first growing church within this lakeside city of kisumu city. I have a background of theology, masters in public health and diploma in counseling. I have been a sports person, athlete.
Affiliation (please list all that apply)
Sport and Development
 | sacrena Sportin... said: Wycliffe Mboya Ngoya CEO and the Director Sacrena Sporting Organization P.O.Box 138-40123 Kisumu-Kenya Tel:+254 724 799 ... about this Competition Entry. - 1542 days ago read more > |
| Jasper said: Hi Wycliffe, great attention raising for an important issue. What is the biggest obstacle in HIV prevention in Kenya? Talking about ... about this Competition Entry. - 1547 days ago read more > |
