Cycling for hopes and dreams of every Afghan girl who wishes to cycle
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ABOUT US
We are young Afghan female cyclists with permanent residence in the UK. Having been forced to flee persecution, just because of our love for cycling In our home country of Afghanistan, it is a crime, for girls to participate in sport. Since the Taliban take over in August 2021, girls are forbidden to play sport or to continue their education. Girls can no longer walk alone, without a male chaperone, go to the beach or play become musicians suffocating all girls. Leaving us with no future. Even to buy a loaf of bread we must cover our faces, only revealing our eyes. One day our country was civilised the next day – not!
The Taliban have removed all women’s basic rights. Sadly, we had to leave our families behind which was extremely sad for us. We arrived in the United Kingdom in late, October 2022 as refugees, after hiding for one year in fear of our lives.
To become professional cyclists we train under the guidance of professional coaches “Dave George’ and Iffat Tejani’. We also study full-time at Brunel University, with great support from the charity ' Help Children Now’ who campaigned for our freedom and resettlement in the UK. We still need your help! To help us rebuild and shape our lives as competitive athletes.
In 2023 you kindly donated and supported us to reach our goals of entering the June Asian Road Cycling Championships – Women’s Time-Trial - Olympic Qualifier, held in Rayong, Thailand and in August we completed at the UCI World Championships held in Glasgow. All proceeds raised will help us reach our ultimate dream of entering the Olympics in 2028. We had hoped to qualify for Paris 2024 but we needed more time to prepare for the refugee Olympic team and for the British government to issue our refugee status having fled persecution.
We still need your kind help with donations to help us with our next step to of training. To become eligible for the US Los Angeles 2028 Olympics we need to continue entering races. So this year one of our team members Arefa will enter as part of the Afghan cycling federation - 'The Asian World Road Championships held in Kazakhstan' 5th June 2024 to compete with worldwide professionals and our team will enter the 2025 UCI world championships in Chile as well as UK races.
Please donate what you can afford to enable Arefa to enter the 'Asian World Road Cycling Championships in Kazakhstan’. Please share our go fund me link its the only way we can continue to support our lives, our Univeristy education and cycling & training. Thank you.
https://gofund.me/80006beb
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Contribute towards training
- Donating £10 a month - helps us with our training, transport and nutriional costs. Being an athlete is expensive. Finding yourself as a refugee in a new country and having to start with out anything is also very difficult.
- Make your monthly donation via Paypal
- thewarriorscyclists@gmail.com
- Thank you.
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- You can donate £20.00 a month towards our cost of living, education and training, Our goal is the Olympics please if you can afford help us along our way.
- Make your monthly donation via Paypal
- thewarriorscyclists@gmail.com
- Thank you.
ANNUAL DONATION
- A one off annual donation means you don’t have to worry about monthly direct debits. And you even don’t have to renew the following year - only if you want to. Follow our journey and get to know along the way.
- Make your monthly donation via Paypal
- thewarriorscyclists@gmail.com
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Team
Arefa
Cyclist
Arefa is dedicated to cycling. She is ambitious and strives for excellence. Arefa is looking forward to the time trials in June held in Thailand. Her ultimate dream is to qualify for the Paris Olympic 2024.
Mina
Team Captain
Mina is the team captain. She speaks good English and strives for excellence in herself and her team members. She is training hard to enter the time-trial in Asia and hopes to compete in the Olympics, in Paris 2024.
Perisa
Cyclist
Perisa is a team member of the Warriors. She is in training but has not reached competition level as yet. Perisa had an unexpected set back after discovering she has arthritis in her knee earlier this year. Persia dreams were crushed however she still hopes to cycle again as a strong team member.
A Welcome Celebration at the Houses of Parliament
go fund me
Help us reach our Olympic dream in 2028
Please donate whatever you can afford. Click on go fund me link below - every donation makes a difference - thank you.
We urgently need to raise £2,860 funding for Arefa’s entry to in the 2024 Asian World Road Cycling Championships held in Kazakstan on June 5th - 12th. With your help our team member Arefa will enter the individual road race and team time-trial . Donations will cover the cost of, flights, accommodation, travel bike insurance, visas, food, kit and transfers. We also have funds to raise funding towards our education while at University. Please go to the go fund me link and give generously if you can.
A very special thank you to those who helped us in 2023 to reach our goals to enter cycling championship races.Danielle, Afghan Sports Trust and Lady Fatemah Trust.
Help us along the way and follow our journey.
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- London, England, United Kingdom
To Donate: Click on the link for the 'go fund me page’. To enable Arefa to enter the June 2024 Asian Road Championship in Kazakhstan - Team- Time -Trial and Road Race. Your donation makes a huge difference. Further enquiries please email thewarriorscyclists@gmail.com.
