Tour Durban strengthens ties with charity
The aQuelle Tour Durban donated money to the Domino Foundation and local baby home, HOLAH.
THE 2015 aQuellé Tour Durban might be little more than a fond memory for thousands of cyclists, but the race’s deep-rooted legacy took another bold stride forward this week with another substantial donation to the unique local community organisation The Domino Foundation.
Formally bringing down the curtain on the successful 2015 event, the race owners, Club Cappuccino, handed over a cheque for R50 000 to the Domino Foundation which further strengthens the ties that the two organisations have had developed over the past three years of their relationship.
The Domino Foundation is a non-profit organisation that believes in the power of a changed life, and operates a range of community outreach programmes involving 4000 young men and women under the age of 18 that focus on the individual, to empower, uplift and transform their lives so they too can impact the nation and others around them.
CEO of the Domino Foundation Mickey Wilkins believes that the way in which the aQuellé Tour Durban and the Domino Foundation have come together to create an opportunity for young people to get involved in cycling is one of the major outcomes of the relationship.
“A race like the Tour Durban gives all riders the chance to participate and not just your elite riders. For us, giving the guys in our community the chance to come and participate in a race that they have not been able to take part in is something special. It is not just about the money for us, it is about the chance that these young people get to take part in such a prestigious race like the aQuellé Tour Durban. With that said, the reality is that the money does make a difference in that it will be ploughed back into their lives through the life skills programme that the money will support,” he said.
Wilkins is hoping that the relationships between the aQuellé Tour Durban and the Domino Foundation can grow and with cycling becoming more and more popular he hopes to see the interest grow within the Domino Foundation community.
The House of Love and Hope (HOLAH) is a haven for abandoned and orphaned babies and they too benefited from the aQuellé Tour Durban as the race handed over a cheque for R5 000 to founders, Kim Brown and Leanne Lorrance.
