Bicis para la Vida collaborates with the Cauces Association of Madrid

Bicis para la Vida delivers bikes to the Cauces Association, collaborating in the development of a cycling workshop where young people and adolescents at risk of exclusion can get into the practice of the sport of cycling.

The AMP association continues to add special moments thanks to the Bicis para la Vida project. On this occasion the protagonists were the professionals and users of the Cauces de Madrid Association, who on Saturday 21st May visited the Bicis para la Vida facilities to collect the 10 bicycles with which they will give a strong boost to the cycle touring workshop they manage, with the aim of enabling young people and teenagers to get started in the sport of cycling.

Early in the morning, AMP professionals and volunteers received the 10 people from the Cauces Association who would take the donated bicycles. After a first moment where the different presentations took place, it was time to pick up the bikes, the last touches were needed to get them ready, saddles and handlebars were adjusted… the brakes and the air in the wheels were checked, everything had to be perfect to start the route of almost 30 kilometres by bicycle, which would symbolically unite both projects.

Specifically, 29.31 kilometres were covered over roads and highways to get the bicycles to their new home. Distance to which should be added the hundreds of kilometres that each bike has travelled anonymously and silently since, somewhere in Spain, a person decided to donate it to the Bicis para la Vida project. And so it is that each of these bikes has a story to tell and a future to create within the Causes Association, which will use them to teach different workshops with them, the main objective of which is to intervene in the world of exclusion, activating and promoting the areas of health and leisure.

Thanks to this joint project between the AMP Association, the Alberto Contador Foundation, the Seur Foundation and the Ananta Foundation, people with intellectual disabilities have received training in mechanics in the bike reception and repair workshop, and organisations that work with groups at risk of social exclusion can access them as a resource with which to promote various projects.

Don’t hesitate: if you have a bike that you no longer use, this could be a good time to give it a better life!

Asociación Cauces is a non-profit organisation whose main aims are prevention, care and support for people whose lives have placed them in conditions of marginalisation.