“When a person rides a bicycle, he won’t despair for the future”
“When I see an adult riding a bicycle, I won’t despair about the future of mankind.” — science fiction writer H.G.
Wells the story begins with a letter.
This thank-you letter in Cambodian comes from a girl named art sreynith, from Bati County, khoueng Takeo Province, Cambodia.
Although she is less than 50} kilometers away from Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, she was born in the countryside but has never been there.
When Ashan was very young, his parents died, and his four brothers and sisters lived with his widowed grandmother.
For Ashan, it’s a long way to walk to and from school every day.
It’s difficult for her to get to school on time.
In the rainy season, she may not be able to go to school because the road is too muddy.
This spring, a Shan’s life has undergone some small changes.
She received a special gift.
It was a bicycle, painted in blue and white, and a black basket that could carry a load.
Gently twist the bell, and the sound of “jingling jingling” was particularly clear.
She put her schoolbag in the basket to go to school.
When passing pedestrians, she likes to step on it quickly, ride over quickly, bring a gust of wind, and leave a string of bells in the wind.
Although she still walks on the Yellow Road to school, she can get to school on time and go to the nearby market with other children.
Help her reduce her time on the road every day, maybe she will have more opportunities to play and study.
Maybe her future will change from here.
“Thank you letter from Ashan” love drifting of the bike Ashan received the bike from Guangzhou 1500 {kilometers away.
Half a year ago, it was selected in the streets of Guangzhou.
Its smart lock was removed.
After maintenance and cleaning, it was pasted with a special beam sticker for the project.
It has been in service for three years and can start at any time.
In Guangzhou, there are 1000 Hello shared bicycles in good condition.
Together with it, it has become the first international love Bicycle wholesale to Cambodia.
Due to the recurrence of the epidemic, these bicycles traveled from Guangzhou to Shanghai and finally left the port in February this year.
They drifted at sea for a week and arrived at Sihanouk port in Cambodia by COSCO Shipping.
1000} children from 67 rural schools received the gift from China.
Ashan is one of them.
“The Hello bike ready to go in the port” on the field of hope “is actually only 32 kilometers from Phnom Penh to Bati, but we drove for an hour and a half.
The first half is still asphalt road, and the back section is almost loess road.
It is difficult to drive, and the section from the countryside to the school is even more dirt road.” The overseas donation of 1000 love bicycles is the first time for Hello bicycles, COSCO Shipping, which undertakes “public welfare delivery”, and Zhu Caiping, who receives containers from the port and distributes bicycles one by one to rural schools together with the project executors of the Cambodian social organization alliance forum.
Zhu Caiping is a staff member of Hoyer transport Cambodia in Phnom Penh and the local agent of COSCO Shipping Group in Cambodia.
Since the company expanded its business to Cambodia six years ago, she has been stationed to take charge of the local logistics business.
This time, the international love cycling project launched by China Poverty Alleviation foundation, Zhu Caiping ran the last leg of the relay with the local truck driver.
Chajiao Province, where Ashan is located, is a plain area with a tropical monsoon climate.
The red soil is very fertile.
The local people generally make a living by agriculture.
Primary education in Cambodia is free, and rural areas usually have classes in the morning and rest in the afternoon.
Because the economy is not developed enough, children living in the countryside need to walk several kilometers to the school in the town, and the dirt road from the countryside to the school often becomes an obstacle for children to receive education.
“In those mountainous areas, even if there are schools, not many students go to class because no one sends their children to school.” Zhu Caiping introduced to us.
12-year-old Chhum seavling and a Shan are peers.
Over the past few years, because she walked half an hour from home to Chok primary school every day, she had the idea of dropping out of school several times.
“Now I have received bicycles from Chinese donors.
Although the weather is still very hot, it takes only 5-10} minutes to get to school by bike.” now, I’m very happy and love school and don’t want to drop out of school anymore, “she said Another beneficiary, Leang sreynet, who is also a sixth grade student of queke primary school, sincerely thanked Chinese donors for providing these bicycles to her and other poor students.
“These bicycles have brought us new hope.
I promise to study hard and realize my dream of becoming a teacher in the future,” said the 13-year-old girl.
“We will always remember this very useful gift.” In a country where industrial products are basically imported, Cambodia needs at least $60} to buy a bicycle, which is equivalent to the income of a rural family for 1-2 months.
It is definitely a luxury.
For a special family like Ashan, bicycle has become a distant dream.
The achievement of receiving a love bike is not just the child’s way to school.
As Ashan wrote in his letter, “grandma sometimes goes to the temple by bike to accumulate merit.” In other families that receive bicycles, their children’s parents will also use this car to transport agricultural products to the market and sell them to get some income.
What a bicycle brings to this family is not only the convenience for children to go to school, but also the hope for a better life..
