Free pancakes and a place to donate your bicycle - Sunday Sept 25 in LFP

LFP Rotary is celebrating its 25th Anniversary as a club this year, and to mark the occasion they are inviting the public to attend a free pancake breakfast at the Lake Forest Park Farmers Market on Sunday, September 25, 2011 from 11am to 1pm. Pancakes and sausage will be served, and there will be balloons for the kids.

Lake Forest Park Rotary is a part of Rotary International which has 1.2 million members worldwide and a network of over 34,000 clubs. Rotarians provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Members volunteer at home and abroad to support education and job training, provide clean water, combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, and eradicate Polio.

In addition to the breakfast, LFP Rotary is also collecting bicycles at this event from 11am to 4pm to send to South Africa in support of Bicycles for Humanity.

Two Wheels Can Change a Life - Bicycles for Humanity, Seattle (B4HS)

Why are bikes so important in South Africa? There is very little modern transportation as we know it, no buses or trains and few other vehicles. Because the high incidence of HIV has caused the explosion of the number of orphans living in South Africa, it is difficult for them to walk many miles to school where they are then often too exhausted to be educated. At school they have the opportunity to get a hot lunch, too, often their only food of the day.

Who benefits from having access to bikes?

• Women who must walk miles daily to find water and fuel
• Health care workers who walk to patients who are without medical facilities
• Unemployed (50% unemployment) who can now start bike shops, delivery services, tourism ventures or other projects

Mountain bikes are great, but any working bike is acceptable. Bring your bike or bikes to LFP City Hall at the front of the building from 11 am to 4 pm. Volunteers will be there to accept them.

Donations are also accepted and will help this humanitarian program. B4HS is a 501(c)3 organization. Their Federal Tax ID is 27-1309387. All donations are fully tax deductible.