World
Bicycle Relief Award
Presented to: Michelle Geels
Tour of the Gila 2009
May
2nd, 2009
On
behalf of the World Bicycle Relief I was honored to present
a very special award to an incredible person at the Tour of
the Gila's downtown criterium this year. World Bicycle Relief
is a non-profit that was started by SRAM in an effort to change
the planet through the power of bikes. Our current project
has provided over 50,000 bicycles to the people of Zambia
to aid in economic development, healthcare, and education.
As
racers, we ride bicycles for sport, health, and fitness. In
Zambia people can run entire businesses off the back of a
bicycle and can shorten a 12mile, 4 hour commute by foot to
only an hour by bike. In the spirit of this great initiative
World Bicycle Relief recognized Michelle Geels for her efforts
in making the 2009 Tour of the Gila an incredible success.
Michelle
is one of the co-directors of the tour and has been coordinating
various aspects of the race the past 21 years. Despite battling
colon cancer Michelle was out at the courses everyday making
sure everything ran flawlessly. Without Michelle the Tour
of the Gila would be at a serious loss-thank you Michelle
for your amazing hard work!
For
more information on World Bicycle Relief please visit us at:
www.worldbicyclerelief.org
--Rebecca
Much
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Tour of the Gila
