Palliative care for cancer patients in Covid-19 Uganda

ON THE MOVE FOR CANCER

Join the fight against cancer in Uganda! Whether you walk, run, swim or ride, everyone can join from anywhere in the world. Together, towards a Uganda with less cancer, more healing and a better quality of life for people with and after cancer.

Cycling out of Poverty supports palliative care workers with bicycles in these times of the raging Covid-19 pandamic to provide palliative care for patients with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses in Uganda. Most of the clients are bedridden, so care is done at their homes. Dedicated clinicians and social workers go every day on scheduled, regular visits - deep into the far corners of some of the poorest areas in Uganda. And help patients live every day that they have left without pain or needless suffering. The absolute poverty and last-mile isolation of the patients means that these health workers on bicycles are often their only hope for treatment and care. In times of lockdown due to Covid-19 these health workers struggle to meet their patients needs. A #CoronaBike solves their mobility challenges and helps them to reach more patients in the most isolated households.

UGANDA FOR THE ROSES 2020 - VIRTUAL EDITION

Support the #CoronaBike Fund of Cycling out of Poverty Foundation! The goal is to cover the same distance 100 health workers cover to reach the cancer and severe AIDS patients in the Busoga Region of Uganda – on average 12,000km (7,500 miles) per month. Together we shall be on the move – run, walk, ride, swim - throughout the whole month of October. The more people who join the challenge, the easier to reach the goal. Are you ready?

TOO MUCH WORK TO JOIN THE EVENT? 

Donate right away on https://www.geef.nl/en/campaign/cycling-out-of-poverty/donors and help health workers to improve access to palliatiave care for cancer patients in Uganda. Especially now!

1. OTHERWISE JOIN THE UGANDA FOR THE ROSES EVENT

Join the virtual race on challenge hound by following this link: https://www.challengehound.com/ugandafortheroses. Create a profile and join the team

2. GET MOVING!

Either manually enter the distance you have covered on Challenge Hound OR download the strava app by following this link: https://www.strava.com/mobile, connect it to your Challenge Hound profile and Strava will automatically updateyour distance covered on Challenge Hound. (Strava is compatible with android and IOS and connects to fitbit, apple watch among others.)

3. RAISE AWARENESS

Email info@ugandafortheroses.org to receive our t-shirt bib. Download it, print it and pin it to your tshirt; snap a photo of your race and tag us on instagram (@ugandafortheroses)! Share the event with your friends to get as many people involved as possible!

4. RAISE MONEY

Donate to and share our Geef.nl page to raise funds for bicycles for palliative care givers in Uganda.