Bicis para la Vida by Škoda delivers fifteen bicycles to the Zaragoza’s Cruz Roja

An important day for bicycles, but from very different perspectives. While the cyclists taking part in the Tour de France were pedalling through the harsh geography of the Auvergne, a land of extinct volcanoes and geography dotted with steep hillsides, short distances, moderate heights and steep slopes, an expedition from Bicis para la Vida by Škoda travelled to Zaragoza to make a new delivery of material to the facilities of the Provincial Red Cross in Zaragoza.

The Contador Foundation project, led by the head of the social area, Henar García, and by the head of Logistics, Ángel López, delivered fifteen bicycles of different sizes, a box of jerry cans and an inflator to the Zaragoza provincial delegation of the institution.

The delivery took place at the Cruz Roja facilities in Zaragoza’s Calle Sancho y Gil, a building erected between 1926 and 1928 that is of great artistic value: the work of Miguel Ángel Navarro, it was conceived as a health centre that would receive the name of Hospital de la Reina Victoria Eugenia. The complex, located in the area around the Plaza de los Sitios, is a notable example of the eclecticism promoted by architectural historicism.

The bikes will go to the work of the Cruz Roja at Zaragoza with the refugees under its care, mainly from Ukraine, especially to promote sustainable personal mobility and the implementation of various group activities. More than three thousand have passed through the Aragonese geography since the outbreak of the Russian invasion and its armed conflict and approximately half of them are still living in the Autonomous Community.