Fondriest donating 270 cycles

[Chris Willemse]

Maurizio Fondriest , former world road cycling champion has donated 270 used cycles to the Chris Willemse group for distributing to the unprivileged and poor communities.

 

Melanie Willemse, my daughter and myself visit the factory of Fondriest during November last year and Melanie were very impressed what he is doing for charity. We told them about our Christmas charity that we were busy organizing in Ruyterwacht last December [most of you helped a lot making it a success ] and Fondriest asked us to send him some more info and pictures once we done it.

 

Melanie chatted to his PA and asked her if they cant help her with some 2nd hand bikes that she would like to distribute to school children especially those on farms that have to walk so far to school. They said that they will look into it and get back to her as soon as possible.

 

Then the big thing came from his side:

 

We at Fondriest cycles would like to donate 270 used cycles to help you with you plan to get more children on cycles. The only thing was that Melanie have to pay for the containers.

 

We done a deal with a shipping company and got a nice special on a 40" container. The cost would be around R 27 000 with all landing and transport arrangements.

 

Melanie got her 2nd hand import permit yesterday and the cycles is on its way to Cape Town. These bikes are normal cycles ranging from a 12" cycle to a 26" [ full size ].

 

The way she is planning to distribute it is that if any one of you have a school in mind that you would recommend then you are more than welcome to contact Melanie on marketing@cwcycles.co.za.

Should you want to help her with the cost then you can "BUY" 5 cycles at R 500 or 10 for R 1000 and nominate to which school these bikes must go to. The ist 270 will only be for the Western Cape area due to lack of distributing funds. This is 1 of her charity project for 2011.

 

Thanks Maurizio Fondriest and his team for helping getting more children on cycles. I can assure you all that should this be successful then Melanie will bring more 2nd hand cycles to SA.

Edited February 18, 2011 by Chris Willemse

[Wannabe]

Well done Chris.

[Chrispy]

Well done to the CWC Group!!! Always at the forefront of new ideas and always willing to get involved in charity work. :thumbup: :thumbup:

[Mackie]

And CWC set the bar higher once again!

[I-FELT-the-FORCE]

:clap: Absolutely AWESOME!!!

Well done Team, once again, showing the SA market just who the leaders are

[LeTurbo]

Maurizio sounds like a pretty groovy dude! Well done Chris. Awesome Melanie!

 

(I presume it's 10 bikes for R10 000, not R1000.)

[FanieFiets]

Maurizio sounds like a pretty groovy dude! Well done Chris. Awesome Melanie!

 

(I presume it's 10 bikes for R10 000, not R1000.)

 

I take it is 5 bikes for R 500-00 (270 bikes at R 27K is R 100-00 a bike)

 

Well done!!! Anything that will suit me? ;-)

[andretraut]

Great initiative! Also great to know that my favourite bikeshop is going the extra mile for poor kids!

[Chris Willemse]

Thanks got 2 sponsors this morning. It is 5 bikes at R 500 for all 5 and 10 Bikes at R 1000 for all 10

Edited February 18, 2011 by Chris Willemse

[Christopher Brunsdon]

This is awesome!

 

Chris and how will the nominations of needy children be handled once a school has been elected?

[Christopher Brunsdon]

Thanks got 2 sponsors this morning. It is 5 bikes at R 500 for all 5 and 10 Bikes at R 1000 for all 10

 

Any possibility of doing a sponser pool for those of us who are on tight budgets? I will gladly donate R100 today (I will forefit tomorrows Saturday take-aways)

[Chris Willemse]

We are going to the schools and chatting to the person in charge. Melanies Idea is that they must do a project such as cleaning the school area and surroundings or anything that the teachers comes up with as long as they do not get it for nothing. If 20 kids take part in the project and we only have 10 bikes then they can do a draw. I will keep you guys up to date which schools are getting bikes and we will also place photos of the children with the bikes.

 

CBRUNSDON thank you. Your R 100 will help as well. We will give the Tygerberg Cycling clubs banking details soon just have to clear it .

[I-FELT-the-FORCE]

Any possibility of doing a sponser pool for those of us who are on tight budgets? I will gladly donate R100 today (I will forefit tomorrows Saturday take-aways)

 

I will join you and match your R100

[Christopher Brunsdon]

We are going to the schools and chatting to the person in charge. Melanies Idea is that they must do a project such as cleaning the school area and surroundings or anything that the teachers comes up with as long as they do not get it for nothing. If 20 kids take part in the project and we only have 10 bikes then they can do a draw. I will keep you guys up to date which schools are getting bikes and we will also place photos of the children with the bikes.

 

CBRUNSDON thank you. Your R 100 will help as well. We will give the Tygerberg Cycling clubs banking details soon just have to clear it .

 

Cool, thanks. For my 1 bike donation I don't have an issue not being able to nominate a school as I believe all the schools have needy kids. I like initiatives like this as I had a tuff when at high school and evenhad to get a job to stay in school as I had to pay my own way.

[LazyTrailRider]

I will join you and match your R100

 

+1

 

R100 from me as well.

[minjin]

+1

 

R100 from me as well.

 

and another R100 from me, now we just need one more

Chris, how do we get the money to you??