They got our support
Over the years, we have proudly supported a variety of organizations and charities. This is a tradition we cherish and will continue, as we believe in making a positive impact. Our involvement in these initiatives reflects our commitment to social responsibility and our desire to make a lasting difference in the lives of others.
Kom op tegen Kanker
Kom op tegen Kanker is a socially committed organization that operates on several fronts in the fight against cancer: it defends the rights and interests of cancer patients, the right to the best treatment and care and the right of people to live in a healthy environment. To accomplish this, they set up care centers and provide financial support for scientific research, advocacy, education and prevention. This can only be achieved with the support from donations, fundraising events and legacies.
Iedereen G-Fietst
Iedereen G-Fietst is a Belgian initiative with the purpose to make cycling accessible to everyone, regardless of age or disability. By organising inclusive cycling opportunities, the project wants to help children, adults and families experience the freedom, joy and health benefits of cycling. Together with various organisations and partners, Iedereen G-Fietst works to remove barriers so that everyone can enjoy cycling safely and actively.
Anticancer fund
The Anticancer Fund is an independent Belgian foundation of public utility with an international outlook. Their mission? To give people with cancer a longer and better life. They do this by informing, researching, and building bridges. Where others stop, they take things a step further. Literally. they look beyond borders. By joining forces internationally, they achieve more. More patients reached, more scientists involved, more policymakers engaged.
Good information is important. Promising research as well. But to
really make a difference, new treatments must also find their way to
patients. That’s why they build bridges; between patients, doctors,
researchers, companies, and policymakers.
At the Anticancer Fund, they don’t just work on solutions; they make
sure they are integrated into policy and that
legislation aligns with patients’ needs. That requires vision and
collaboration, preferably at the European level, where policy is
shaped.
Ligue Handisport Francophone
The Ligue Handisport Francophone (LHF) is the sports federation responsible for developing sport for people with motor, intellectual or sensory disabilities in Brussels and Wallonia. Its objective is to enable EVERYONE to take part in sport, whether for leisure or on the international stage. To achieve this, the LHF unites over 240 clubs offering more than 30 different sports, including paracycling, blind football, and swimming, among many others. In addition to promoting sport for all, the LHF develops an ‘elite’ division, supporting approximately 50 athletes who compete at international competitions, including the Paralympic Games. Together with its Flemish counterpart G-Sport Vlaanderen, the LHF is part of the Belgian Paralympic Committee, with all three organizations coming together to form Paralympic Team Belgium. Through its work, the LHF conveys a universal message of tolerance and inclusion. Each year, a Charity Gala is organized to raise funds for projects that foster the development of sport among young people with disabilities in Brussels and Wallonia.
AFH Revalidatieweide
The Athletes for Hope opened a unique and beautiful Athletes for Hope Rehab pasture in the spring of 2021. This pasture is open to children with paralysis as well as all children with disabilities for either physical or mental rehabilitation.
The Rehab pasture is an oasis of tranquility, where the combination of nature and the warmth of miniature horse therapy has a healing effect on body and mind.
STOPhersentumoren.nl
Stichting STOPhersentumoren is committed to raising awareness of primary brain tumours and the impact of living with a primary brain tumour, and strives to achieve a cure for this disease by supporting and enabling independent (international) research and knowledge transfer on primary brain tumours.
Antwerp Diner VZW
Antwerp Diner VZW raises funds to support research and prevention efforts related to AIDS and HIV, as well as to promote open dialogue around these topics. Each year, the Antwerp Diner team hosts a prestigious benefit gala at a top venue in Antwerp. The primary objective—beyond delivering an unforgettable evening—is to raise as many funds as possible in support of three organizations committed to the fight against AIDS and HIV: the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Sensoa, and Tomorrow4Isibani
Jeremiah's Journey
Jeremiah’s Journey is a bereavement charity providing age-appropriate therapeutic interventions for children, young people and families based in Plymouth and the surrounding areas. Giving emotional and practical support for those who are pre-bereavement, and who have been bereaved, we are currently supporting over 700 children and young people a year with the wider family benefit extending to 2000 people annually.
The aim is to reduce prolonged and traumatic distress after bereavement. Jeremiah’s Journey believe that no child or young person should be alone in their grief, endeavouring to ensure that they can face the future with the skills necessary to continue with the ability to enjoy their lives more fully with grief being one part of their life, and not their sole focus.
Services include the Grief Journey group, an extended group in the community as well as memory days, family days, individual support, training to professionals and community groups, advice and support. We also work with parents and carers and facilitate peer to peer support groups for the wider family, for instance the grandparents' group.
Jeremiah’s Journey are the only organisation in Plymouth and the immediate surrounding area offering this support. Our work has proven to deliver better health and well-being, better school attendance, improved sleep, and better overall mental health to over 7000 children since the charity started its work started in 1996.
WAC Team
WAC Team is one of the oldest cycling clubs in Flanders, having been around for 80 years. The club has a strong heart for youth, has 125 members between the ages of 8 and 18, and runs entirely on volunteers.
WAC attaches great importance to the team spirit within the club. Everyone helps each other to develop within their possibilities. Values such as friendship, team spirit, respect, honesty, and passion are held in high regard. WAC team strives for gender equality and inclusion. Besides the boys, also girls and para-athletes are given the opportunity to develop their talent within the WAC Team.
Additionally, WAC Team's focus lies on a qualitative framework within a strong sports project, including participations in the most beautiful competitions at home and abroad, led by experienced and certified trainers and supervisors. Learning through play is key in their philosophy.
In doing so, WAC Team carries out the purpose of the Merci Poupou project: the passion for sport is passed on over generations, within a structure where everyone can find their place. To visually emphasize this, the riders of WAC Team wear the legendary 'Merci Poupou' colours.
Giro d'Italia Ciclocross
The Giro d'Italia Ciclocross is an overall stage challenge including a general classification held from October to January, in different Italian areas. Founded in 2008, now for sixteen years, the Giro d'Italia Ciclocross has been encouraging young Italian cyclists to discover cyclocross in a child-friendly environment.
This is what makes the Giro d'Italia Ciclocross a unique project. Where youth cyclocross was no longer existing in Italy 15 years ago, today over 250 Italian youngsters between 8 and 22 years old participate in each event of the Giro d'Italia Ciclocross, and this all over the country.
As cyclocross is at the grassroots of our team and since we hope for the cyclocross scene to live up again in the traditional countries, we chose to include the youth division into the MerciPoupou-project.
RSV Unna
RSV Unna is a German youth cycling team that was founded in 1968 by riders who wanted to start a new and modern club in the region. They have a total of 160 members, including 40 young athletes in the youth tanks. Their ages vary between 11 and 19 years and they are the organisation’s main focus. The development of young cyclists to become pro athletes has been the main goal of the organisation right from the beginning. RSV Unna has already produced several professional cyclists: Justin Wolf, Jon Knolle, Charlotte Becker, Michel Hebmann and many more.
During the corona period, they have provided alternative training so that their youth could continue to train. The Merci Poupou fund, just like RSV Unna, is committed to youth work. That is why we are pleased to support them with Merci Poupou Fund. Thanks to the support they will get from the Merci Poupou fund, they will be able to offer their young riders an even better service. They will be using their financial support for travel expenses and in equipment for their youth department.
LVM Saarland Trofeo
LVM Saarland Trofeo was founded in 1990 by Gerd Hufschmidt. In the early days this was a one-day race but over the years it has grown into a five-day stage race. LVM Saarland Trofeo puts their focus on the juniors. Each year they organize a junior race that takes place in Germany and that is part of the UCI Juniors Nations' Cup. This event is only possible thanks to the support of the involved municipalities, the police and the many volunteers who work with great enthusiasm and expertise.
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