Bikers parade for charity

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Bikers parade for charity. As part of their charity parade Harley Davidson pins were sold to raise funds to support the United Nations World Food Programme initiatives to feed school children. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Today we are gathered, the World Food Programme and Harley-Davidson to really advocate a very

00:26special cause, which is the school feeding programme that is carried out by the World

00:31Food Programme across the Middle East.

00:33Through this programme we are providing school meals to kids in need all across the region.

00:38Those meals are really an incentive for their parents to send them to school, so it's a

00:43very powerful tool to boost school enrolment.

00:46We are feeding about 2 million kids in the region.

00:49Last year we already did a ride, you know, a joint ride with Harley-Davidson that was

00:54in support of our Women's Empowerment Programme and those joint initiatives are very precious

01:01because they give us an opportunity to raise awareness about our work, our cause and also

01:07to raise funds because today Harley-Davidson will be selling us special bins that will

01:12enable them to raise funds to finance those school meals.

01:17We try to partner with the best and Harley-Davidson really is known for its spirit of solidarity

01:23and because they are so popular among the public it's also a great way for us to reach

01:28out to the public and advocate our cause.

01:31I'm the head road captain of Harley-Davidson Hog in Dubai.

01:38We're a club of 500 members, but that club is just one club of thousands of clubs around

01:45the world.

01:46There's nearly one and a half, two million members in the Hog and we're all Hog lovers,

01:53we're all Harley-Davidson lovers, that's what we do, that's what we live the life.

01:57Now often people perceive anybody on a bike in leather as a naughty boy, as a bad man,

02:06as an outlaw, we're none of those things.

02:09We're just business people, we're friends, we're families that enjoy the lifestyle.

02:15Idea of a woman riding a bike, it's increasing more and more every time, especially an Arab

02:20because I'm an Arab as well.

02:22So it is increasing and I hope it will be increasing so much, I mean now maybe we're

02:26more than 10 or 20 women riders from all ages, maybe I'm the youngest, but it is increasing

02:33way more.

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