Want to make a positive impact on the world? Interested in cycling the Pacific Coast or Europe?

Join one of the two 2009 "Riding to Break the Cycle" tours where teams of 25 young people pedal from either Vancouver, B.C. to Tijuana, Mexico OR Amsterdam, Netherlands to Istanbul, Turkey to raise funds and awareness about how microcredit can help developing world entrepreneurs lift THEMSELVES out of poverty.

For more information visit: www.globalafc.org

The more we know about each other and our cultures, the more we get out of living life! Sharing about each other´s culture is sharing another way of living - another way of eating or having fun, for example. It´s also walking in someone else´s shoes for a day.

It got tired of doing nothing, of thinking that the problem was too big, that I couldn't do anyhting to make a difference, and I just started, took a stepforward, connected with other like minded people and it flowed from there. It's funny when you realize how much helping others helps yourself, in ways you would never imagine ;)

I got tired of thinking a problem was to big to change. I decided to something, instead of nothing. When you focus just on hunger, you soon realize that fixing the whole problem is a long term goal, but feeding one person one meal is easy, and doable.

I'm taking part in a local radio stations efforts to help raise awareness and money to support Breast Cancer research.

Change myself. Change my attitude. Change the world. Cycling for a month provides a gentle yet ideal exercise in focussed committment, sustained effort, and mindful awareness of one's changing environs and an experential understanding that 'less is more': zen and the art of cycling.