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Micheal has been involved in five bicycle expeditions between 1993 and 1998. The first expedition in which he took part was Africatrek.
Africatrek set out to achieve three main objectives:
1. Ride bicycles from the northernmost to the southernmost points of the African continent in record time in a bid to promote the bicycle as a pollution-free mode of transportation.
2. Engage 5o,ooo classrooms, mostly in the USA, in a real time study of the geography, history, and current state of Africa, as they followed the progress of the expedition.
3. Africatrek was commissioned by NASA to take air samples from the Sahara desert to facilitate a study on the amount of contamination in the atmosphere above the Sahara.
The expedition achieved the goals that it set out to and was noted by the Guinness Book of World Records. Compilation of video footage from the expedition also won an Emmy Award.
On concluding Africatrek, Micheal then undertook DHL Cycle for Youth and the Environment, a solo bicycling expedition which set out to make young people in Africa more aware of the environment. With the support of DHL, an international courier service, they planted trees in every capital city between Johannesburg and Kampala. In every city in which Micheal stopped he visited schools and set up environmental and geography clubs and challenged the students to take a more active role in regenerating the natural environment around them.
In 1996, he joined 90 other bicyclists to take part in the Bike-Aid ‘96 ride across the USA. Bike-Aid is an annual event that is done with the aim of promoting various causes, from awareness of AIDS to environmental issues. The primary goals of Bike-Aid '96 were to raise awareness of alternative methods of transportation, along with sustainable agriculture and environmental justice, among other things.
On Returning to Uganda, Micheal coordinated the new Bike & Build ’97 project for Habitat for Humanity Uganda, a subsidiary of Habitat for Humanity International. The group had around 80 participants and their major accomplishment during the ride was the construction of 15 low-cost houses in the outskirts of Hoima Town, western Uganda.
Africaquest, the most recent expedition in which Micheal was involved, was centered around school children. The journey set out to clarify details on the origin of humankind and to help unveil the mystery of the disappearance of big game in the Rift valley region of Eastern Africa. The expedition was guided by U.S. school children via the Internet; throughout the adventure classes and their teachers would take a vote to determine the group’s next move.
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Africatrek set out to achieve three main objectives:
1. Ride bicycles from the northernmost to the southernmost points of the African continent in record time in a bid to promote the bicycle as a pollution-free mode of transportation.
2. Engage 5o,ooo classrooms, mostly in the USA, in a real time study of the geography, history, and current state of Africa, as they followed the progress of the expedition.
3. Africatrek was commissioned by NASA to take air samples from the Sahara desert to facilitate a study on the amount of contamination in the atmosphere above the Sahara.
The expedition achieved the goals that it set out to and was noted by the Guinness Book of World Records. Compilation of video footage from the expedition also won an Emmy Award.
On concluding Africatrek, Micheal then undertook DHL Cycle for Youth and the Environment, a solo bicycling expedition which set out to make young people in Africa more aware of the environment. With the support of DHL, an international courier service, they planted trees in every capital city between Johannesburg and Kampala. In every city in which Micheal stopped he visited schools and set up environmental and geography clubs and challenged the students to take a more active role in regenerating the natural environment around them.
In 1996, he joined 90 other bicyclists to take part in the Bike-Aid ‘96 ride across the USA. Bike-Aid is an annual event that is done with the aim of promoting various causes, from awareness of AIDS to environmental issues. The primary goals of Bike-Aid '96 were to raise awareness of alternative methods of transportation, along with sustainable agriculture and environmental justice, among other things.
On Returning to Uganda, Micheal coordinated the new Bike & Build ’97 project for Habitat for Humanity Uganda, a subsidiary of Habitat for Humanity International. The group had around 80 participants and their major accomplishment during the ride was the construction of 15 low-cost houses in the outskirts of Hoima Town, western Uganda.
Africaquest, the most recent expedition in which Micheal was involved, was centered around school children. The journey set out to clarify details on the origin of humankind and to help unveil the mystery of the disappearance of big game in the Rift valley region of Eastern Africa. The expedition was guided by U.S. school children via the Internet; throughout the adventure classes and their teachers would take a vote to determine the group’s next move.
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