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...Bike-Aid ride ended their nine-week trip. Although many of the 287 people who participated in the rides over the last three summers were not serious cyclists, they rode 80 miles a day as they crossed the country to raise money for grassroots projects to prevent hunger in the United States and abroad...
Sponsored by the Overseas Development Network (ODN), Bike-Aid has the dual purpose of raising funds for ODN self-help development projects and spreading awareness about the problems of world hunger, says Benjamin R. Kahrl '89, who biked a 3600-mile route from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., last summer. About 85 percent of the money raised goes directly to the people in developing countries for self-help projects, and 15 percent goes to the same type of grassroots projects, such as survival centers and irrigation systems, in the United States...
...brothers from Bangladesh--then students at Harvard and Stanford respectively--founded ODN on the two campuses in 1983, and there are currently 63 chapters on college campuses nationwide. Bike-Aid, which started in 1986 and absorbed Harvard Cyclists Fighting Hunger in 1987, is one of four major ODN programs which raise awareness about and help combat the problem of global poverty and injustice...
Accommodations along the route vary from night to night, Faber says. "We stayed in churches, YMCA's and high schools, and we camped out in tents if there were no other options," she says. "The people in the towns we went through knew it was a fundraising trip for hunger, and churches would give us huge potluck dinners...
...each of the towns they pass through, the riders share information about their cause. "We tried to get audiences and we would either do a skit to demonstrate the problems of world hunger or just share facts and experiences about our trip," Kahrl says...