{"id":8964,"date":"2021-06-03T08:51:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/weltvelotag\/"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T07:34:44","slug":"weltvelotag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/weltvelotag\/","title":{"rendered":"We celebrate World Bicycle Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Promoting bicycle mobility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is World Bicycle Day! For more than 200 years, bicycles have simplified the lives of people around the world. That&#8217;s why the UN has designated 3 June as International World Bicycle Day. <strong>Velafrica has been doing what the UN celebrates once a year every day since 1993: We promote velomobility in Africa with bicycles from Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An impressive example from South Africa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Deutsche Welle recently visited our partner in South Africa, the Sweetdale Skills Center, and reported on the \u00abBike to School\u00bb and training programmes there. <strong>An impressive report (in German) on the advantages and opportunities offered by the recycled bicycles from Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJ7b2N2G4rA\" title=\"S\u00fcdafrika: Zur Schule per Fahrrad aus Europa | Global Ideas\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJ7b2N2G4rA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Support \u00abBike to School\u00bb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Help us to collect 3&#8217;000 bikes for our \u00abBike to School\u00bb  project and make everyday life easier for pupils in Tanzania, Madagascar and South Africa.<\/strong> <a href=\"\/en\/donation\/\">Register your donation now<\/a> and make a contribution on World Bike Day to make bike mobility possible for even more people!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promoting bicycle mobility Today is World Bicycle Day! For more than 200 years, bicycles have simplified the lives of people [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/weltvelotag\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from We celebrate World Bicycle Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-velafrica-en","tag-worldbicycleday-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velafrica.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}