Yale Bulletin and Calendar

June 21-July 19, 1999

Volume 27, Number 34

Students make cross-country trek
on behalf of charity

Some Yale students are pedaling across the country this summer in order to promote home improvements in the Elm City and throughout the globe.

The students set out from the New Haven Green on May 29 for a summer-long, coast-to-coast bicycle ride in support of Habitat for Humanity.

For the second year, the Habitat Bicycle Challenge features two cross-country treks. The northern route originates in New Haven on Saturday and ends, 4,000 miles later, in Vancouver on July 31. Another group of riders will leave from Washington, D.C. and pedal to San Francisco during the same period.

The Habitat Bicycle Challenge, which requires riders to raise at least $3,000 each, generates more than $150,000 to support construction of two Habitat houses. The money raised has enabled Habitat's New Haven affiliate, which was building one house at a time in 1994, to work on four houses at once in 1999. This year, for the first time, funds from the ride will also be donated to Habitat chapters throughout the world.

The bicycle fundraising tour was the brainchild of a group of Yale students who wanted to raise money for their student-run "Collegiate Build" project in New Haven. In its first year, there were eight riders. Sixty students, most of them from Yale, are participating this year.

In addition to raising funds, the cyclists raise awareness for Habitat for Humanity in the communities they visit by offering slide-show presentations and assisting local Habitat efforts.

For further information about the project, visit the students' web site at www.yale.edu/habitat.

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