I have written of late about biker generosity, well another example of the way that bikers here take care of their own was exemplified just recently.
Two members of the Meeulanders motorcycle club have had more than their share of bad luck when Stefanie became ill last year, she has had fingers removed from both hands due to gangrene and this year her condition worsened to the extent that she needed an oxygen machine. To make matters worse, her husband Henrico was recently involved in a motorbike accident that resulted in a broken hip and an injured knee. This put his own business under severe pressure with him being laid up.
The Meeulanders sprang into action and started a fund to assist financially and as I wrote in my last entry this resulted in us raising the amazing amount of over R6,000 in a very short time, this in spite of the other charity work that we have also been doing at the "Cool Kidz" home in Lambert's Bay.
The local chapter of the Gypsy Jokers under the President Eduardo and his lady Anna, of whom I have already written also started a fund and also within a very short time raised the amazing amount of over R13,000 to purchase the much needed oxygen machine which they presented on Tuesday.
Anna informed me that the Capetown and Johannesburg chapters of the Gypsy Jokers got involved and that donations were received from all over, and not only from local bikers but from members of the public too, most of whom did not even know Stefanie.
Now the fund continues for medical expenses. Words fail me, words are not enough to express the way that I feel about bikers and especially about unassuming people like Anna and Eduardo and all of the bikers who do things like this from the goodness of their hearts.
Have I already told you that I'm proud to be a biker?
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