Bike for Life by PeopleStories

Victoria Bike for Life

Victoria Bike for Life

“After decades of my corporate life, I founded PeopleStories with the support of a team of passionate friends to drive positive and sustainable social impact. Our objective is to couple storytelling and photography whilst creating a platform for people around the world to get involved and make a tangible difference to communities.

BikeforLife program is about enabling children in the rural area of Siem Reap to have access to education. It is making the dream of a local primary school principal of providing bikes to children for their greater access to school come true.

Access to and completion of school remains a dilemma in Cambodia. Poverty drives many children away from school, with some children (that I know of) as young as 12 years old having to enter the labour market. I have personally seen many of them walking to school around 6am for 30mins or more and returning home under the hot sun in midday. Sadly, some don’t even have any shoes!

A shout out to all our supporters and chuffed to have enabled us to exceed our funding target in 5 weeks, to deliver 93 bikes to this specific school. This would have a ripple, tangible impact and get 93 more children into school in the new term this November.

These bikes will provide mobility, consistent access to school and create new opportunities for the children through education.”

Check out more about this amazing story on their crowdfunding campaign page below:

Bike for Life: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty for Disadvantaged Kids in Cambodia

Victoria & Boon from People Stories

Victoria & Boon from People Stories

“After decades of my corporate life, I embarked on my volunteering experiences in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia in 2017.   While I have met many beautiful people and learned about their stories along the way, I personally encountered some of the poorest families especially in Cambodia. Some of them struggle to put food on the table, let alone supporting their children for education.

Access to and completion of school remains a dilemma in Cambodia. Poverty drives many children away from school, with some children (that I know of) as young as 12 years old having to enter the labour market. I have personally seen many of them walking to school around 6am for 30mins or more and returning home under the hot sun in midday. Sadly, some don’t even have any shoes! My heart goes out to every one of them!

I wanted to do something about it! A team of my close friends voluntarily got together and are fully motivated to share the authentic life moments of these everyday people with love and compassion through the art of photography and storytelling. Hence the establishment of PeopleStories (www.PeopleStories.net). However, that wasn’t enough and we wanted to do more!

We are hoping Bike for Life crowdfunding campaign will enable us to deliver 93 bikes to a specific primary school in the rural area of Siem Reap. These bikes will not only give the disadvantaged children the mobility needed, but change their lives as they become more educated.”

For more on this awesome cause and to support it, check out Victoria and PeopleStories’ crowdfunding campaign: