Every year, the Fit for Life Awards recognize three outstanding organizations leading innovative, impactful programs that support life-long fitness and independent mobility for older people worldwide. The Awards provide generous funding as well as international visibility and partnership opportunities.
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2022 Laureate: Cycling Without Age (Denmark)
Remembering an experience with his disabled father oli kasou started the cycling without age movement in 2012 his aim was to allow elders with limited mobility to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and community around them his solution was to build a trishaw and begin offering free rides to residents
Of local nursing homes soon a group of volunteers signed up to take elders for rides as often as they wanted they are fantastic they were here cycling without age grew by launching thrival local chapters first in denmark and later in 50 countries around the world affiliates operate and fundraise
Independently and develop their own culture affiliates sign a non-exclusive agreement with cycling without age and commit to following the organization’s vision and guiding principles thanks to its decentralized structure cycling without age has raised more than 25 million euros in nine years most of these funds have been raised and spent locally by affiliates
Today cycling without age is active in 50 countries through over thousand seven hundred affiliates with a total of three thousand and seven hundred trishaws thirty-five thousand trained riders ensure that older people get out of their homes safely for a pleasant ride the cycling without age movement has offered 2.5 million rides since 2012. You