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[FILE IMAGE]: Bicycles at a school.
Learners who received 120 bicycles at Hanyani Secondary School in Niani, outside Musina in Limpopo, have expressed gratitude.
Non-profit organisation Qhubeka, ABSA and the University of Johannesburg identified the school for the donation.
Some learners travel several kilometres to and from school because they have no transport.
One of the learners, Romeo Mudau says the bicycles will help them get to school on time and improve their school results.
“It was difficult for us to get to school because we stay far from the school. We walk more than 10 kilometers to school. When we get to school, we are tired and sometimes we are late. This bicycles will help us a lot,” says Mudau.
Meanwhile, the founder Qhubeka Anthony Fitzhenry says the project of donating bicycles aims at assisting over eight million learners who walk to school countrywide.
“Eight million children in South Africa that walk to school every single day and in particular this community. People are walking between one and three hours to school, one to three hours back again. So, it makes it extremely difficult in the heat to do that. And so, you have a lot of dropouts and you have a lot of people who don’t attend school and don’t attend all the time,” he says.
