Emma Henly is helping organise the event and is keen to have people help out as bucket shakers and with riding."We have a long way to go and need all the help (and legs we can get!) and we would really like to raise as much money as possible for charity - we want to raise £1737 to match the miles!"
The static bicycles will be outside the University of Manchester Student’s Union – in the heart of the campus on Oxford Road.
Anyone who would like to help pedal a few miles can turn up or book a slot by contacting Emma emma_henly(at)hotmail.com.
The event is fundraising for Chernobyl Children's Project UK (More details below).
On April 26th it was 25 years since the devastating accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. The repercussions of the radioactive fallout are still being felt today by the people of Belarus, which was left dangerously contaminated. In the years after the accident, there were huge increases in children being born with disabilities and serious health problems. Sadly, society in Belarus still places stigma on having a disabled child, and many parents were advised to give their child away as they were told he or she would ‘not survive long anyway’. Chernobyl Children’s Project UK works to change the lives of the children who are affected by disability and serious illness through providing medical care and resources, nursing and expert doctor care, respite homes for terminally ill children, orphanages for abandoned children, recuperative holidays to the UK and summer camps in cleaner areas of Belarus.
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