Podcasts about team rwanda

Discover what's possible when passion drives purpose.  In today's episode, we're continuing to highlight our recent SkillCorps® trip to Rwanda. Our SkillCorps® volunteer program is an opportunity for self-advocates, family members, and professionals to travel to our international partner sites and collaborate with local stakeholders on outreach initiatives in their communities.  This carefully curated 10-day journey includes developing culturally-relevant and sustainable training with our partner staff, listening to local Autistic Self-Advocates and family members to learn about their lived experiences, sharing meals with community members to brainstorm ideas and solutions, and executing a high-impact project to build on existing work being done in the country.  In this week's episode, you'll hear our SkillCorps® Rwanda team members' personal experiences and takeaways. Special shout out to SkillCorps Alum and leader Kelly Cotter, who helped me guide this professionally diverse team of 10 global visionaries on this transformational journey. Even though the team members were complete strangers before they met in New York for orientation, by the end of our trip they had formed friendships that will last a lifetime.  Apart from collaborating with our partners at Silver Bells, our SkillCorps team also took in Rwandan culture through a range of activities, such as shopping at a night market, learning a local dance, and visiting an important historical museum. Each day left us surprised, inspired, and moved.  The team had a virtual reunion two weeks after returning from our trip. We reviewed what we had learned and reminisced about some of our experiences.  In today's conversation, we discuss: Memorable moments from the trip Global collaboration Sustainability The Global Autism Project's model of Do With Not For Personal and professional growth Leadership Each team member's post-trip commitment to their own community Tips for future SkillCorps® travelers ----more---- We're currently taking SkillCorps® applications for travel in October 2024!  Join us today at skillcorps.globalautismproject.org and use the coupon code “AUTISMPODCAST” to waive the application fee.  ----more---- We appreciate your time. If you enjoy this podcast and you'd like to support our mission, please take just a few seconds to share it with one person who you think will find value in it too. Follow us on Instagram: @autismpodcast Join our community on Mighty Networks: Global Autism Community Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Global Autism Project We would love to hear your feedback about the show. Please fill out this short survey to let us know your thoughts: Listener Survey

Jonathan Boyer. Eine Legende des US-amerikanischen Radsports: Fünf Tour de France Teilnahmen in den 80ziger Jahren und Teamkollege von Bernard Hinault und Greg Lemond im Renault Elf Gitane Team. Aber Boyer ist mehr, er ist auch der große Kümmerer und Förderer des Radsports in Afrika. Im Gespräch mit Thomas Pupp erzählt Boyer zu den Tönen von Vivaldi und Bob Dylan über „sein“ Team Rwanda und warum das Land gute Chancen auf die UCI Straßenweltmeisterschaften 2025 hat, welche Zukunftsperspektiven der Radsport in Afrika hat, zieht Vergleiche zwischen dem Rennsport in den 80zigern und jetzt und überzeugt mit der Aussage, dass Gravel die große Freiheit auf zwei Rädern bedeutet.Sein Gravelevent ist hier zu finden: www.battleofthegravel.comDas Gespräch wurde via Webkonferenz zwischen Innsbruck und Wyoming aufgenommen, bitte bedenken Sie das bei der Tonqualität.

Emily and Ryland take to the streets of Denver for the 2017 Colorado Classic bike race and Velorama music+bicycling extravaganza. Featuring interviews with George Hincapie, Caley Fretz, Team Rwanda, and more!

It’s 1994 and Rwanda, a land locked country on the Eastern side of Africa, just on the Equator, was in the midst of one of the worst genocides in history. In 100 days more than 1 million Tutsis were slaughtered, representing about 70% of their population. At that time a bicycle = life. If you had a bicycle you might escape the slaughter. If you had a bicycle you could try to make your way to safety, too afraid to look back at the staggering and stomach churning displays of man’s inhumanity to man.A documentary called Rising from the Ashes details how some of those survivors were given a reason to hope by cycling legend Jock Boyer (the first American to enter the Tour de France and a member of the United States Cycling Hall of Fame) as he helped a fledgling Rwandan cycling team not only get off the ground, but also, amazingly, managing to attend the London Olympics in 2012. The riders of Team Rwanda gave their countrymen a vision of something greater than themselves and their history; hope for the future.Scroll forwards to 2017 and the Rwandan Cycling Team will be racing at this year’s inaugural Colorado Classic pro cycling raceJoin me as I talk to Jock Boyer about the movie, the team and the race.Listen on GoogleListen on iTunesListen on StitcherJock Boyer and Adrian Niyonshuti Team Rwanda's Colorado Classic Jersey - Note RhinosThe Tour de Rwanda - ©Mrjka Boensch BeesTeam Rwanda's Web SiteRising from the ashes movie (iTunes)Thorne ResearchThe Colorado Classic Spiders Will Eat Your Face $0.99 Starring Mike Fallek See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Triathlete, cyclist, ultrarunner and TechWomen mentor Andria Bouskos shares her story of riding with the Rwandan National Cycling Team... and bringing them an exploding bag of cycling jerseys from San Francisco. More info: Team Rwanda: www.teamrwandacycling.org Film: www.risingfromashesthemovie.com Book: www.velopress.com/books/land-of-second-chances TechWomen: www.techwomen.org And Liz tries to decide whether her foot is up for marathon training. (Not that exciting by comparison.)

Two worlds collide when fabled cyclist Jock Boyer guides a team of Rwandan genocide survivors to the Olympics. Rising from Ashes is about Team Rwanda, redemption, recovery, and riding the bike.

Darryl and Victor were honored to have Jock Boyer and two members of the Team Rwanda cycling team on this podcast.  For those of you who don’t know about Team Rwanda, you can find out more at www.teamrwandacycling.org.  But for those of you who do know something about their story, you’ll know it is nothing […]

Rwanda is a nation of bicycles; large cumbersome machines, piled high with sacks of coffee or potatoes, so heavy they can only be pushed up the steep winding roads in this "land of a thousand hills." Rwanda -- a country known only for the genocide of 1994, when an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, were murdered in cold blood in a mere 100 days -- is also a nation in need of heroes. It may now have found them: lycra-clad athletes in helmets and wrap-around sunglasses on five thousand dollar racing bikes. They are Team Rwanda, the national cycling team, its tightly packed and brightly coloured peloton now a familiar sight on their training rides on the roads around Ruhengeri in the country's north-west, not far from the border with Uganda. For this week's Crossing Continents Tim Mansel has spent a week with Team Rwanda as they prepare for their latest international competition, the Tour of Eritrea. The team assembles on a Monday night from all over Rwanda. They come by bike, some after riding for three or four hours, one after a ride of six. Their week is a series of gruelling rides, nutritious food, and daily yoga, all under the critical eye of their outspoken American coach, Jock Boyer. It's impossible to spend time in Rwanda without being confronted by the genocide. A large purple banner adorns the main street in Ruhengeri, its message unmissable - Jenocide, it proclaims - and this year's slogan: "Learning from History to build a bright future." And only a few hundred yards from where the riders live is the town's genocide memorial, a walled garden dominated by a disturbing monument - the figure of a man pleading for his life and a machete that appears to be dripping in blood. Team Rwanda is not immune from the genocide, indeed it makes explicit connections. Its website features biographies of several of its riders: Rafiki Uwimana, a small child in 1994, sent by his parents to live in the countryside to escape the horrors of the capital Kigali, forced to hide in the forest from the Hutu militias, and almost dying of malaria before being saved by the Tutsi RPF militia invading from Uganda; or Obed Rugovera, who lost three siblings and two uncles in the carnage. "The genocide has affected every one of the riders profoundly and you can feel it even without talking about it," says the coach, Jock Boyer. "Cycling...gives them the hope that they can buy a house, provide for their family, do something they're good at and that they're recognised for and that the country is not just going to be known for a genocide.".