[Closed] Joyce’s story

[url= http://www.one.org/us/2015/03/27/joyces-story-cyclist-champion-in-kenya/ ]Meet Joyce. [/url]

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Joyce Nyaruri won her first race riding a cheap, rattling, Chinese-made, sit-up-and-beg style bicycle known locally (and ironically) as a “Black Mamba”, after one of the fastest-moving snakes on Earth. It was 2009, and she was cycling 264km a week to get to and from work at a nearby flower farm in central Kenya. Her job paid 7,500 shillings ($86) a month, most of which she used to pay for her younger siblings’ education.
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A benefactor once bought Nyaruri a mountain bike to help her feed her family. In six years, she has earned enough to do that, and to buy a house. She recently started a cycling club for 8-12 year olds, to encourage more to take up the sport