Journey of Hope, News
Journey of Hope Brakes in Grand Island
Three groups of Pi Kappa Phi are biking across the United States to raise awareness and money for people with disabilities, making a stop in Grand Island to meet with those from the Arc.
Three groups of Pi Kappa Phi are biking across the United States to raise awareness and money for people with disabilities, making a stop in Grand Island to meet with those from the Arc.
Grand Island is the halfway point for a group of cross-country bicyclists riding for a cause.
Cheered on by an enthusiastic crowd, fraternity members pedal their way into the hearts of those with disabilities.
For 67 days this summer, Reed Wells is riding his bicycle about 3,600 miles from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
Standing in his blue and yellow cycling spandex outfit and surrounded by a handful of clients of Mosaic, an organization that serves those with intellectual disabilities, Steven Dibble was smiling from ear to ear.
If I started a sentence with the following; twenty fraternity brothers from Pi Kappa Phi got together for the whole summer to . . . The majority of people would not assume its fraternity men dedicating their entire summer to service.
On Sunday, July 12, to Thursday, July 16, a team of 22 fraternity men will be in Rocky Mount at Wonderland Camp as a part of a service-learning construction event.
On their first stop of their six-week Build America tour across the East Coast and Midwest, members of Pi Kappa Phi are spending several days at Camp Allen, improving accessibility to facilities for the disabled campers Ñ and making new friends along the way.
On Friday, June 26 The Ability Experience's Journey of Hope stopped in Wheatland at the Middle School. The Ability Experience's Journey of Hope is a 4,200 mile cycling event where members of the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi ride across the country to raise awareness and funds for people with disabilities.