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The Flemish Humanist League turned 50 in 2001 and to celebrate, the Humanist League’s President Mme. Marianne Marchand decided to tour through Flanders on bicycle, stopping at each place where one of the organisation’s dynamic divisions is active. Mme. Marchand was joined on the trip by local companions. The complete 16 day trip covered a total distance of 830 kilometres.

The intent was to set up very informal, amicable meetings with all the volunteers,  who,  during  the  years,  have  been  the  pillars  of  the organisation’s activities (and still are): people engaged in promoting the ideas of freethinking humanism in order to having it gradually accepted by a general public and the entire society.

The bicycle trip was also used as a means for fund raising and the entire proceeds (US Dollars 8000) were donated to the palliative care units of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Middelheim in Antwerp (Dr. Raymond Mathijs) and the VUB Universitair Ziekenhuis in Brussels (Dr. Wim Distelmans).