DUBAI // A cavalcade of bikers will take 20 orphans across the country at the weekend to raise money for charity.
The Al Ihsan Charity Association and the motorcycle group UAE Riders have collaborated to organise Pure Wildness, a fund-raising event for the orphans under the charity’s care.
“We have about 800 orphans. They have their own families, but we take care of them financially,” said Randa Al Hemeiri, Al Ihsan’s marketing director.
The event will start at 9am on Friday at the Bikers Cafe on Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai, where about 50 riders will set off on the ride with the orphans, aged 15 and 16.
They will make their way to Ajman and the palace of Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi, who is known as the Green Sheikh because of his passion for the environment.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz will also participate in the event.
Ms Al Hemeiri said the ride was an opportunity to clear some of the public’s misconceptions about bikers.
She said people “see these riders and they think they are gangsters”. She said the idea of the ride was to debunk that perception.
“The riders are all respectable people, pilots, engineers. They have families, they do it for fun, it’s their passion.”
esamoglou@thenational.ae
