Girls use bikes to change their world

These girls from the Panlap Secondary school in Sierra Leone will use their bicycles for absolutely everything: farming, to go to school, to run errands for the family and to go to market.

Girls are the primary caretakers of everything domestic in the family, so the more time they spend at home taking care of the house, family members and helping to get food on the table benefits everyone. Spending less time riding to and from school also gives girls more energy to keep up their studies and go further in their education.

In Sierra Leone, especially in villages like this one, seeing a girl riding a bicycle is still not a common site. These girls are also setting a good example for their community and taking a risk by demonstrating something out of the ordinary – riding a bike is usually reserved only for men.

Not only will these girls use these bikes but their entire family will undoubtedly use them too for their errands.  Thank you Laurie for supporting these girls and their community!