Project of Biking for Women (Riding for Peace, Freedom, and Rights)

Hariwan, Bishkoreen, and Better world organizations participated in the IOM biking project for women and girls from IDP, refugees, and host communities, the project objectives are to empower women and girls through sports activity, to advocate for the rights of women and girls especially in doing sport and riding a bike, and to strengthen social cohesion among the host, IDPs, and refugee’s communities. The project contains three stages; the first one is to train 100 women and girls on riding bike, the second stage is to hold a marathon event that all 100 trained women and girls are gathered in one place to ride the bike at one time and together, and the third stage is the follow-up activities after the event in which the women and girls continuously been gathered and to ride the bike in a safe and friendly environment. In addition, in all three stages, women and girls are to be involved in PSS and awareness activities.