Bicis para la Vida sends 90 bicycles to Tessaout Valley

The ‘Bicis para la Vida’ project has successfully completed one of its most important initiatives, the shipment to the Moroccan High Atlas of ninety bicycles, mostly donated by the sports products chain Decathlon.

The material has been transported by road from the headquarters of ‘Bicis para la Vida’ in Pinto (Madrid) to the mountains of Morocco, in a journey of about one thousand five hundred kilometres, especially complicated because of the snowstorm that hit the High Atlas and especially the Tessaout Valley, the final destination of the bicycles.

Volunteers from the Geoda Action Foundation, who have been supporting the inhabitants of the Berber villages of Tessaout for the last decade, supported by members of the Ananta Foundation and the Alberto Contador Foundation, were responsible for travelling to Morocco and delivering the bicycles to the three villages that applied to receive them, Azarsem, Taghroute and Agnsounouareg.

With this action, the children of this particularly disadvantaged area of Morocco will be able to go to school more easily, as they are located kilometres away from their villages, which are small and widely scattered throughout this valley and whose inhabitants still practice a subsistence economy.

Bicis para la Vida is an initiative of the Alberto Contador Foundation that since its inception has had the collaboration of the Pinto Association of Disabled People, responsible for the repair of the donated bicycles; of the Seur Foundation, which makes available to the project its network of offices for the reception and shipment to Pinto of the bikes, and of the Ananta Foundation, which has provided from the beginning an important financial and human support to this project to offer a healthy and sustainable means of transport in disadvantaged places.