A TRIP WITH MEKONG BIKES, PEDALING AND MEETING OTHER PEOPLE.
The Mekong Bikes trips require to be in good health but amateurs will be fine. The physical effort is reasonable, all legs are moderate and fortifying. They mainly offer the sense of friendship, group solidarity, good physical condition and awareness about the world and differences.
FLOWERS OF MEKONG
This is the most comprehensive challenge! The focus is on the discovery of our projects and on the solidarity gesture you make: you meet our teams while sharing the daily life of the villagers. You enjoy the biking without the constraints (a minibus follows the group and ensures your comfort and logistics). The tour takes you on the edge of great historical sites where we ensure knowledgeable guides are available.
Path
A few days too, around Hanoi and the beautiful Halong Bay. (not included )
In Practice
- Trip Length: 10 days and 9 nights.
- Immersion in our projects: 4 half days on one site (for example in our Binh Thuân projects)
- Logistics: provided from arrival until departure.
- The price includes comfortable hotels
Your Solidarity and Commitment
Your support and solidarity is the visible part of your participation in our NGO. We ask you to be an ambassador of Mekong Plus, talk about us and our projects; to raise a financial contribution that will go directly to the Mekong Plus programs. For the Mekong Trophy, the participation is 10 000 € for the group. This represents a large budget, we are aware of this. Yet it is not difficult to achieve! See a few examples and our crowd funding platform.
Your Carbon Footprint
We are committed to using the equivalent of your carbon footprint in our programs that fight against climate change (currently € 100 per participant).
The group “Papillons du Mékong” tells their experience
Papillons du Mékong, a successful cyclist challenge for an opening of the eyes, heart, and mind This challenge started in Belgium, with the crowdfunding platform. From the outset, we felt mobilized to move forward, to talk about our cycling adventure, and educate our friends to support this great human adventure and solidarity. What a joy to feel supported by our friends! The clock started ticking: 21000 euros already raised, thank you, friends! This trip allowed us to realize how our donations were needed and well used. They are sometimes vital for the sustainability of projects. An experience of humanitarian work, a sporty challenge but fit for each of us; an unforgettable tourist discovery, and a hike to the heart of the Mekong Plus projects We biked through two endearing countries. At times we had to cross the river on a small ferry, often we were among the children, or at the foot of a temple. During these 10 days, we knew each pedal stroke was a boost to help these villagers. 380 kilometers to the heart of the villages and the rhythm of the villagers taught us the merits of going to meet the poorest, cycling on paths and tracks which are not always easy; but it allowed us to take us where the extremely poor villagers live, in Vietnam and Cambodia. Their living conditions are often unimaginable in Belgium: houses made of a few iron sheets, often a tiny habitat, poor hygiene, and sometimes an improbable kitchen … What a lesson for us! We were extremely touched by the dignity of these people, Mekong Plus respects and encourages this spirit of dignity in never falling into easy charity. Here the villagers with the Mekong Plus teams, build the projects, actively participating to carry them out in a sustainable manner. We admire the incredible involvement of Bernard and his teams with the poorest people and the quality of human relationships that are created around the projects. When aid is no longer needed, lasting bonds have been formed and persist, so that the villagers do not relapse into poverty. Ambassadors Mekong Plus There was a “before” – a “during” and there will also be an “after” challenge! How to fulfill our role as ambassadors and encourage other donors to support the actions of Mekong Plus? A great experience of humanitarian work, a sports challenge, and this unforgettable tourist discovery are shared with others. Nobody returns the same from this trip! Fabienne, Jean-Marie, Claire, Michel, Brigitte, Corentin et Jacques
They support us
The social enterprise Mekong Quilts
Our institutional partners:
We have also the Benina foundation, the NIckedo foundation, the foundation OKWorlds and the enterprise OVH