
Mission:
We aim to be involved in a sporty, healthy and fun way, together with hundreds of others supporting the fight against cancer. This is your way to fight it, in memory of someone who did not survive, as support to someone who is fighting the battle right now or just because you are involved in any kind of way.
Ride for the Roses Curaçao:
On January 2005, in the pouring rain, 273 cyclists started a 45 kilometre cycling journey across the island. They were followed by a warm reception where they got offered a rose and a stage program. There were smiles and some tears as well: this was how The Ride for the Roses in Curacao was born. The later Olympic champion Maarten van der Weijden had been cycling the ride. That day he told about his story, how he was a promising young Dutch open water swimmer that happened to become a leukaemia patient later. He talked about his daily fight and above all about the importance of never ever giving up. Never. In 2005 he finally turned back into a real sportsman instead of a patient, as he had always been feeling the sportsman inside him, even in his darkest days. At that moment he could not even know that in three years from then, in Beijing 2008, he would win one of The Netherlands most special golden medals.
In Curaçao we have 5000 Maarten van der Weijdens. 5000 patients who are suffering any form of cancer. 5000 people whose world collapsed when they found out the terrible news. 5000 people living in uncertainty. 5000 people who cannot give up. 5000 people who are not pitiful but ill. 5000 people who need our support terribly hard.