12/5/2019
News release issued December 5, 2019.
MedExpress, a neighborhood medical center, will donate 110 Learn-To-Ride Balance Bikes, pedal conversion kits and helmets to five Wheeling-area elementary schools this winter in partnership with All Kids Bike and the Strider Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to place kindergarten physical education programs into public schools for free.
MedExpress and Bellaire Elementary will host a bike build in which MedExpress team members and school staff will build the donated bikes and present completed, ready-to-ride bikes to local kindergarteners, physical education teachers, parents, and other community members in a formal ceremony.
Over the next five years, MedExpress will help nearly 2,000 kindergarteners learn to ride bikes through the donation of Learn-To-Ride Strider Balance Bikes, which are specifically designed to enable children to develop balance skills before introducing pedaling for an easy transition. Also included in the donation are training and certification for physical education teachers and staff, as well as a complete, eight-lesson curriculum, which can be incorporated into the educator's year-long physical education programming.
As a neighborhood medical center, MedExpress is committed to partnering with local organizations, like All Kids Bike and the Strider Education Foundation, that are dedicated to the health and wellbeing of families in our Wheeling community. MedExpress recognizes that learning to ride a bike can be an important step to helping young children adopt healthy habits, like regular exercise, from an early age to set them up for a healthy, happy life.