Trips for Kids (TFK) today appear a cogent anniversary with the accumulation of its aboriginal across affiliate - Trips for Kids Israel- Samson Riders Bicycle Club (TFK Israel-SRBC).
Located in Beit Shemesh, Israel, Trips for Kids’ newest affiliate provides disadvantaged Yehuda Plains adolescence a adventitious to acquaintance the joy and claiming of abundance biking in nature, something they would not about be able to enjoy.
“The Samson Riders Bicycle Club is actual aflame to become allotment of the Trips for Kids family!” said Renee Halpert, advice coordinator for TFK Israel-SRBC. “Many accouchement and adolescence from our arena will ability new heights of success because of this important association.”
TFK Israel-SRBC was created on the foundation of the association group, the Samson Riders Bicycle Club (SRBC). One of SRBC's aberrant programs, Riding for Co-Existence, brings Israeli Jewish and Arab adolescence calm to ride, apprentice about anniversary other, breach down amusing barriers, ascertain new interests and account the land.
“We accept that with the abutment of TFK, we can abide to aggrandize this affairs to absorb adolescence from these and added aboriginal communities in the planning and accomplishing of rides for their peers,” Halpert said.
Across North America, and now in the Middle East, Trips for Kids capacity crop low-income, burghal and contrarily at-risk adolescence out of the city-limits for abundance bike rides, which generally about-face out to be “the rides of their lives.”
A simple abstraction with affluent dividends, Trips for Kids capacity accept affected the lives of about 50,000 adolescent humans during its added than 20-year history. Trips for Kids’ organized abundance bike rides advice adolescence accept fun while accepting confidence, benumbed skills, a greater acknowledgment for the accustomed apple and acknowledgment to the constant allowances of exercise.
Each TFK Chapter is distinct, with altered staffing and advance levels depending on the blazon and admeasurement of its program. Some capacity accept been started by organizations like the Boys and Girls Clubs, Police Athletics League and cycling clubs. Several accept acquired from accessible and clandestine non-profit organizations committed to confined underprivileged youth, e.g. allotment schools, analysis centers and accessible bloom agencies. While the communities served by anniversary affiliate are unique, the adolescence allotment a accepted charge – they are low-income kids adverse an arrangement of claimed challenges.
For added advice on Trips for Kids, including a account of chapters, amuse appointment www.tripsforkids.org or alarm Marilyn Price at (415) 458-2986.
About Trips for Kids
Trips for Kids (www.tripsforkids.org) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 alignment based in Marin County, California. With 60-plus capacity operating in the United States, Canada and Israel, Trips For Kids opens the apple of cycling to at-risk adolescence through abundance bike rides and Earn-A-Bike programs. Trips for Kids started in 1988 as a grass roots accomplishment by ardent abundance biker, environmentalist and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Marilyn Price to accommodate burghal adolescence a way to adore the outdoors and accretion much-needed activity skills.
Fueled by success in the San Francisco Bay Area, the civic alignment was launched in 1999 with the broadcast mission to accessible as abounding capacity as accessible in adjustment to accommodate kids with acquaint in claimed responsibility, accomplishment and ecology acquaintance through the development of applied abilities and the simple act of accepting fun through abundance biking.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Marilyn Price, Trips for Kids, 415.458.2986, national@tripsforkids.org or
Chip Smith, SOAR Communications, 801.523.3730, csmith@soarcomm.com
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