Inmates of Sri Chitra Home in Thiruvananthapuram Learn how to ride a bicycle | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

As Always Prakash P Gopinath, Bicycle Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, has Several Plans to Encourage more people to enjoy the ride, on a bicycle. On the Occasion of World Bicycle Day Today (June 3), Prakash Plans to Scale Up Indus Cycling Embassy’s (Ice) Shecycling Campa’APAIN to Empower Women by Teaching by Teaching them to RIDE to RIDE to RIDE to

Prakash, Founder of Ice, Says that as of now they have taught more than 400 women in thiruvananthapuram and kochi to ride a bicycle. From May 22 to May 30, Beena O And Zeenath Ma, Volunteers of the Shacycle Campaign, Were Teaching 52 Inmates of Sri Chitra Home in Thiruvananthapuram to use a bicycle. Three bicycles were gifted to the home on may 30.

“In the recent past, we taught 15 women in cms college in kottayam and 16 women in vattiyoorarkavu in thiruvananthapuram as part of the campaign. Three Instructor in Kottayam and one in Vattiyoorarkavu have taken up the task of Teaching Other Women to Ride. Bengaluru-Based bycs India wanted to know if we could do the same in eight Indian sites-Bengaluru, Surat, Kolkata, Indore, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Rajkot and Pimpri-Chinchwad in Puns, “

Students of Sri Chitra Home Learning to ride a bicycle. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

The plan is to teach 400 women to ride over a period of four months in Each city and then select a woman Instructor to Continue the program in their respective cities.

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Zeenath says that under the project, they hope to empower women, especially that from from economicly and socially disadvantaged sections of societies. A Resident of Kochi, Zeenath Learnt to Ride at the age of 44 and now she wants to motivate more women to learn to cycle. “A Pair of Wheels Increases Their Mobility and Sense of Confidence. Cycling is also an excellent form of exercise and it is environment-friendly, ”She adds.

Members of Trivandrum Bikers Club. , Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

They acreedge that many women have inhibits that stop them from learning to cycle. “They are the ridicule of family and friends and, in some cases, it is patriarchy that stops them from using a bicycle,” Says Prakash.

Under the Shecycling Program Ice Wants to Encourage Groups of Female School Students, Women Working in Kudumbasree and Anganwadis and ASHA WORTERE and SO on to bekome Cycom. “By 2030, we aim at least 50 % of Indian women cycle literate,” say Prakash.