Câmpina Open Mountain Bike / Race for autism – Fundraising Event

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Campina Open Mountain Bike is a mountain bike competition well-known among the cycling lovers across the country and it enjoys a large participation in each edition and has the purpose to encourage a healthy lifestyle and promoting Prahova County.

Campina Open MTB is also a fundraising event based entirely on voluntary and the charity character is ensured by using the amounts raised from participation fees for social projects to benefit children with autism and their families.

The event has achieved an extraordinary performance both in terms of volume of hard work done by volunteers, the proceeds from donations and sponsorships received from the supporters.

Thus along editions (5 editions / 2012-2017) Campina Open MTB, work was reflected in the following results:

• An average of 450 participants present at Start
• About 4,000 people took direct contact with the event (and accompanying guests)
• A team of over 200 volunteers, with whom we prepared and conducted the event in the best conditions
• Over 12,000 people were informed about the event and the cause supported (20 & 100 media partners who took over news portals)
• More than 3,000 fans on Facebook
• Over 120.000 RON used in projects for children with autism and their families (obtained from the participation fee)
• Prize winning “Volunteering Project of the Year” in the field of Sport and Recreation since the first edition

Actions carried out with funds raised from Campina Open MTB that we managed to bring a smile to children with autism and their families are:

• Communication course with icons for nonverbal children, parents and professionals addressed
• Camp for families of children with autism
• Awareness and information campaign on local schools’ We’re different, but we learn together “
• Socialization camps for families of children with autism
• Forming a support group for parents

For the future we aim to increase the visibility and the impact of the event involving more partners and supporters. We hope that in this way we can increase the number of participants and the money raised could sustain the continuation of activities aimed at social integration of children with autistic spectrum disorders.

With the help of early diagnosis and benefiting from specialized intervention, children with autism have increased opportunities to integrate into the community.