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Written by Santa Barbara Middle School
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Santa Barbara Middle School Graduate Jacob Seigel-Boettner Leads Effort to Supply Rwandan Coffee Farmers With Bicycles
"As a student at the Santa Barbara Middle School where one-week cycling trips are part of the curriculum, I learned about self-sufficiency and developed a desire to confront challenges with realistic solutions," said Seigel-Boettner. "Bicycles are essential in the daily life of the Rwandan coffee farmers. By making new bicycles available to them through a micro financing program, they continue to play a key role in rebuilding their country's economy. Perhaps more importantly however, the bicycle gives a sense of hope to a people who have lost everything."
Prior to the Ride 4 Rwanda event, Mr. Ritchey inspired students with an impromptu pep talk, drawing on his nearly thirty years worth of experience biking around the world.
"If I had been lucky enough to attend Santa Barbara Middle School myself, I think I would have recognized much sooner the impact that each one of us can have, and should have, in being good global citizens," Mr. Ritchey commented, his voice filled with emotion. "I've spent most of my life devoted to the sport I love and my business. Now I have the opportunity to use them both to contribute to wonderful causes like Ride 4 Rwanda and Project Rwanda."
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