Hey Folks,

I hopped on the freeway this morning on my way to work, I drove without hesitation. Sitting in traffic with a thousand other single-passenger vehicles I wondered what the world would look like 20 years from now. Will there be wider freeways, two story - double decker highways? How will we accommodate the growing population?

5 guys have spent their summer riding across the country. Though they chose to do it on bikes. Just two wheels, the road and a story that they needed to share. Now they have arrived in Venice, the end of their journey, two months after setting out and life feels different. A bicycle might not end a war, but your connection to the road, to the earth, to the strangers you meet along the way bring hopeful ideals within reach, and that’s a start.

“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.”  ~H.G. Wells

Read on my friends!

Brittany

DR Congo to Repatriate More Than 27 Rwandan Rebels

The Action Program for Peace and Reconstruction (PAREC) has been working to return former FDLR soldiers to their homes in Rwanda for some time now, but it’s difficult to do when there isn’t always a home to return to. “There’s no problem of co-existence with the natives. The issue is that the concerned men have refused to go back to the camp where they were staying,” PAREC coordinator said when he tried to justify the decision by the national authority. READ MORE (People’s Daily).

With Education Comes Hope, But Where is the Money?

Dusaba Mbomoya, like many teachers in North Kivu and throughout Congo, waits for the day when his students will have a roof without holes, adequate desks and actual walls. A condition far too common these days.  “The dire conditions at Mashango are mirrored at schools around the DRC. They are the result of war but also chronic underfunding of a system where just 8 percent of the country’s annual budget is allocated to education, according to the World Bank. Mashango has no water or electricity and few books. Most classrooms are dark and crumbling with limited teaching materials.” READ MORE (All Africa).