Madang bikers eager to drive social, health issues

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The National, Monday 25th March 2013

 MADANG Bikers Association is eager to promote social and health services in the province.

The 52 cyclists turned up at the Madang district office last Friday to show the provincial AIDS coordinator Conrad Wadunah and district administrator Lawrence Pitor that any programmes needing awareness could be handled by them.

Patron Maxwell Moider said the aim of the goodwill gesture was for the bikers, mostly unemployed youths from ward six and eight areas, considered hot spots of crime, to stay out of trouble.

He said they had the support of local MP and Police Minister Nixon Duban.

“Where vehicles cannot cross over mountains and streams, we can go to do awareness. We have been carrying out similar activities for the past three years since our existence. We are basically telling everyone and anyone interested to give my boys a chance. 

“We have mostly done awareness on the issue of violence against women, HIV/AIDS and children’s rights,” he said. 

Moider added that the club patron was former female MP Dame Carol Kidu.

He said his cyclists had travelled the Madang to Bogia highway more times than they could remember with support from locals along the north coast highway.

They have also travelled to Wapenamanda and the Watarais junction and the Wewak to Vanimo route.