#RideforRations2024

There are families and individuals living in HDB rental flats who may face seemingly insurmountable challenges everyday. They could be plagued with chronic illness, living alone with minimum income or having irregular employment, to name a few.

Ride for Rations supports 580 households with monthly food rations and 191 school-going children with breakfast sets, I an effort to alleviate part of their stressors. This ground-up initiative is organised and managed entirely by volunteers, and every single cent that is raised goes towards the cause.

#RideforRations2024 will have two editions:

Melaka-Singapore edition:
6th – 8th September 2024
Registration Deadline: May 31, 2024

Virtual edition:

Only available to

  • past RfR participants
  • those who have been involved in RfR activities such as ration distribution or undertaken fund-raising for RfR in the past

Please email registration@bikeaid.org.sg.

Why you should join us

MAKE A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE

Help raise $594,000. This will enable us to provide the following support for one year:

Monthly food rations costing about $75 for 580 disadvantaged families

Monthly breakfast rations costing about $30 for up to 200 school-going children

100% of the funds raised will go to Sunlove Abode for Intellectually Infirmed Ltd, a registered charity, that procures the food rations and identifies the deserving families in Bukit Merah, Chai Chee, Depot Road, Geylang, Hougang, Marsiling, Serangoon, Whampoa and Woodlands.

STAY HEALTHY

Cycle individually or in permitted group sizes, whether  indoors or outdoors, without compromising your own safety and health. Be responsible and adhere to the prevailing safe distancing measures and government advisories while participating in this cycling event.

SHARE YOUR STORY AND INSPIRE OTHERS

Share your #RideforRations2024 personal achievements, experience and stories with your friends and post regularly on the Bike-Aid (Singapore) <https://www.facebook.com/BikeAidSingapore> and/or Ride for Rations <www.facebook.com/groups/rideforrations> Facebook pages .

How to take part

PICK AN RfR2024 EDITION

Melaka – Singapore edition

This covers a distance of about 245km over two days. On the first day, ride from Melaka to Batu Pahat. On the second day, continue from Batu Pahat to Singapore.

 

Virtual edition

Choose to complete a distance of 200km, 580km or 1,000km within the month of September.

  • Ride outdoors or indoors or both, in Singapore or elsewhere!
  • Pick a team name and get a few like-minded cycling ‘kakis’ to register under it. Get your colleagues, friends or family members.

Whatever you choose, you must:

  1. Raise as much donations as you can – at least SGD500.
  2. Participate in rations distribution over the months of April through September

PICK A ROLE

Cyclist – in the Melaka to Singapore edition, we’’ll put you in a group that rides close to your pace and together, you’ll complete the distance. In the Virtual edition, you can ride individually or together with your friends or family. Rally everyone else to make a donation towards your endeavour!

Support Crew member– Be part of the backbone of RfR’s Melaka – Singapore edition! You’ll play a very important role in providing refreshments to cyclists, provide directions where roads get tricky, and help to make sure that everyone has a safe ride.

#RideforRations2024 Ambassador – help spread the word and raise funds from your family, friends and colleagues. You can do this right away! Create your own Give.Asia page or ask us for a pledge card!

RfR2024 registration fees are as follows

Melaka-Singapore Edition

  1. SGD320 (twin-sharing accommodation)
  2. SGD390 (single room accommodation)

Virtual Edition

  1. SGD30 (with RfR2024 t-shirt)
  2. SGD50 (with RfR2024 cycling jersey)

 

START FUNDRAISING NOW!

Upon registration, create your own Give.Asia page. For guidance in setting up your Give.Asia campaign, please refer to this guide.

You may also do so via a pledge card provided by Bike-Aid (Singapore) – contact registration@bikeaid.org.sg.

Organised by Bike-Aid (Singapore), a not-for-profit society registered in 1992,  in support of Sunlove Abode for Intellectually Infirmed Ltd.