THE EAST AFRICAN CYCLING CHALLENGE 3500 km
A Scout friend from Uganda John Ugandan Balonga sent me an event of a long range Safari (3500 km) in Uganda visiting countries on Africa, namely stops at Aruha, Kampala, Nairobi, Bujumbura, and Kigali, ( only the first 5scoutS under twelve from different countries today post on my FB page the countries of these cities will receive a badge from Turkey )
This promotion photo made me dream an activity and I wrote my ideas to him as following (Paragraph 1-3) and ideas to make it a Worldwide friendship and solidarity event. I wrote my ideas to make it (Paragraph 4) Please let me know your ideas. I hope our friends in Africa make this event. With my capacity I will try to post it on (1) My FB page Global Youth Activities and Umit S. Baran
(2) Scout org Messengers of Peace heroes page
(3) to my group The Scout Friendship foundation on Facebook to UN FAO YUNGA page if I make a Tribe with Cycling lovers in Ankara ( I made a flash mob with them on a 350 environment event some time ago)
(4) Courage youth groups I know to promote UN FAO YUNGA Energy and Climate change activities
(5) The Global youth service day at April) and more all along to the event
I hope you care to give ideas and some will to encourage this project. If I have 5 countries I will be very happy to start on global level
1. They can make climate change challenge activity . First they may visit UN FAO YUNGA website (www.fao.org/yunga/home/en)and create a tribe second download climate change book . third encourage a troop on those places to make this challenge
2. A short workshop may be organized an those places with children on Climate change book and mixes activities with bicycle fun
3. You make a program with these contends
a. children climate change painting exhibition. I supply an e-file to be exhibited in advance. Tribes can make their exhibition any time up to the August anywhere ie schools a and on the workshop in those cities when cyclers visit there and of course on the internet
b. I can send you A3 copies of those paintings to be promoted by your cyclers if you can carry them on the road and exhibit them while visiting cities
c. A bicycle fun festival for a couple hours may be done
d. A session Climate challenge badge may be done about two hours . with posters I make. I already sets of those posters for forest challenge and soil challenge and I generate one for climate change anyway. They will be in English and may be you find a way to translate them to local languages. I will add a workshop we made here with children on soil challenge
e. There is three activities on these challenges where you can create activities related to cycling and Climate change
f. You also exhibit the sustainable development goals activity during these event A wish tree where children make pledges to make a better Africa tomorrow
4. This event may promoted on world scouting web
a. Encouraged join in jamboree events in their cities