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Film Screenings & Discussion on “How can bicycles impact the last mile?”
(This will be an online event. You will receive the link to access the Zoom call once you register here)
Across the developing world, more than one billion people live in rural areas. In these communities, distance and challenges of moving freely from one place to another hinder people’s access to health services, food security, economic opportunity and education. This limits their ability to lift themselves out of poverty and become self-reliant. Women and girls continue to be disproportionally challenged by the lack of transportation.
World Bicycle Relief is addressing the challenge of distance and last mile mobility by building and distributing a rugged, specially-designed, locally-assembled bicycle to students, healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and workers.
Join us for a screening of two short films, and learn about the transformative impact bicycles have on girls, women and their communities.
A Way Forward beautifully illustrates how Buffalo Bicycles help the girls get to school safely and on time, avoiding tiring walks to school or having to accept lifts from motorcycle drivers.
Seeing Brave is part of a documentary series of three courageous women, who are transforming lives around the globe through taking action. The co-founder of World Bicycle Relief, Leah Missbach Day, is portrayed in this episode and it touches on her inspiration, motivation, and leadership approach after founding the organization following the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with co-founder of World Bicycle Relief, Leah Missbach Day and World Bicycle Relief’s Global Director for Strategic Information and Innovation, Alisha Myers. The discussion will be moderated by Giving Women’s Founder, Atalanti Moquette.
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BIO LEAH MISSBACH DAY
Leah Missbach Day is co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and a documentary photographer based in Chicago. Her images and storytelling often serve World Bicycle Relief’s campaigns and illustrate the power of bicycles to transform lives. Leah is profiled in Seeing Brave, a documentary that shares the stories of three women trailblazers inspiring the next generation of female leaders and as author of the foreword to National Geographic’s book Wheels of Change: How Women Rode to Freedom.
BIO ALISHA MYERS
Based in South Africa with regular field visits, Alisha provides strategic leadership, management, and oversight of WBR’s global M&E efforts, including digital platforms, field-based tools, analysis and learning, and data reporting. As an essential technical leader of the organization, Alisha identifies and addresses data collection and reporting requirements, initiatives, and challenges, as well as research study opportunities and new market analysis.
Alisha brings 16 years of experience to her role at WBR. From 2009 to 2014, Alisha served as Senior Technical Advisor for M&E at mothers2mothers, a global NGO based in South Africa, which seeks to improve maternal and newborn health and prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. Alisha spent the early years of her career at Catholic Relief Services in a series of research and analysis roles, including as M&E Technical Advisor for three years and as senior program manager in Sri Lanka. Alisha is a former Fulbright Fellow (1999), Congressional Hunger Center Fellow (2001 to 2003), and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (2005 to 2006). She has an undergraduate degree in Global Studies from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Join us for an inspiring viewing and insightful discussions
About this Event
Film Screenings & Discussion on “How can bicycles impact the last mile?”
(This will be an online event. You will receive the link to access the Zoom call once you register here)
Across the developing world, more than one billion people live in rural areas. In these communities, distance and challenges of moving freely from one place to another hinder people’s access to health services, food security, economic opportunity and education. This limits their ability to lift themselves out of poverty and become self-reliant. Women and girls continue to be disproportionally challenged by the lack of transportation.
World Bicycle Relief is addressing the challenge of distance and last mile mobility by building and distributing a rugged, specially-designed, locally-assembled bicycle to students, healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and workers.
Join us for a screening of two short films, and learn about the transformative impact bicycles have on girls, women and their communities.
A Way Forward beautifully illustrates how Buffalo Bicycles help the girls get to school safely and on time, avoiding tiring walks to school or having to accept lifts from motorcycle drivers.
Seeing Brave is part of a documentary series of three courageous women, who are transforming lives around the globe through taking action. The co-founder of World Bicycle Relief, Leah Missbach Day, is portrayed in this episode and it touches on her inspiration, motivation, and leadership approach after founding the organization following the tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with co-founder of World Bicycle Relief, Leah Missbach Day and World Bicycle Relief’s Global Director for Strategic Information and Innovation, Alisha Myers. The discussion will be moderated by Giving Women’s Founder, Atalanti Moquette.
_____________________________________________________________________________
BIO LEAH MISSBACH DAY
Leah Missbach Day is co-founder of World Bicycle Relief and a documentary photographer based in Chicago. Her images and storytelling often serve World Bicycle Relief’s campaigns and illustrate the power of bicycles to transform lives. Leah is profiled in Seeing Brave, a documentary that shares the stories of three women trailblazers inspiring the next generation of female leaders and as author of the foreword to National Geographic’s book Wheels of Change: How Women Rode to Freedom.
BIO ALISHA MYERS
Based in South Africa with regular field visits, Alisha provides strategic leadership, management, and oversight of WBR’s global M&E efforts, including digital platforms, field-based tools, analysis and learning, and data reporting. As an essential technical leader of the organization, Alisha identifies and addresses data collection and reporting requirements, initiatives, and challenges, as well as research study opportunities and new market analysis.
Alisha brings 16 years of experience to her role at WBR. From 2009 to 2014, Alisha served as Senior Technical Advisor for M&E at mothers2mothers, a global NGO based in South Africa, which seeks to improve maternal and newborn health and prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. Alisha spent the early years of her career at Catholic Relief Services in a series of research and analysis roles, including as M&E Technical Advisor for three years and as senior program manager in Sri Lanka. Alisha is a former Fulbright Fellow (1999), Congressional Hunger Center Fellow (2001 to 2003), and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (2005 to 2006). She has an undergraduate degree in Global Studies from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science.