In honor of the 24th annual National Day of Hope — a day dedicated to raising awareness about child abuse — Childhelp partnered with Arizona Bike Week, Bikers Against Child Abuse, Dixxon Flannel and Harley-Davidson of Scottsdale for the inaugural Day of Hope Ride! The ride kicks off at 8 a.m. on April 3 at Harley-Davidson Scottsdale with stops at the State Capitol and Dixxon. Tickets are $48 in advance or $60 day of and include breakfast, a raffle ticket and admission to AZ Bike Week. Get your ticket today: https://www.childhelp.org/events/childhelp-day-of-hope-ride-for-children/
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00:00 Welcome back to the Arizona Daily Mix. Arizona Bike Week starts off next week
00:04 and it brings the biking community together but there's another event that
00:08 will be bringing riders from all over together and that is the Day of Hope
00:12 ride which is happening April 3rd. Mike is here to tell us a little about it
00:17 along with Nitro who is with Baca and getting behind this great event. This is
00:20 to benefit ChildHelp and listen Michael this is such a great way for those who
00:24 have any type of bike, any two wheels, come out and raise money to help fight
00:30 of course abuse and that's what ChildHelp does. So let's talk a little
00:34 about this event that's coming up. Absolutely so April 3rd Wednesday is the
00:38 inaugural ChildHelp Day of Hope ride and what that's about is to commemorate and
00:42 recognize the fact that right now in America five children die every single
00:46 day as a direct result of abuse. Right here in Arizona 40% of those child
00:51 deaths are children under the age of two and what this Day of Hope ride is about
00:55 is to call attention to that to recognize and honor those lives that are
00:57 lost. Anybody that has two wheels should be out on Wednesday April 3rd ride and
01:02 we're gonna be riding from Scottsdale Harley-Davidson that's a partner with us
01:05 on this ride. We're gonna be riding down to the Capitol. Join us at the Capitol
01:09 let your voices be heard let your engines be heard because children who
01:12 experience trauma and abuse they don't get a day off. They don't get a day off
01:16 from their trauma and abuse but you can take that day off you can ride with us
01:19 and you can get those voices heard. We're so excited about our collaboration
01:22 with Dixon that's why you see us wearing these flannels. Dixon great brand based
01:26 right here in Arizona created this ChildHelp branded flannel to be able to
01:30 recognize those lives and those children as well.
01:33 Mentioned Scottsdale Harley-Davidson I got my brothers and sisters here from
01:37 BACA, Bikers Against Child Abuse all of us coming together to call attention to
01:41 this epidemic that is happening not just around our country but right here in
01:44 Arizona. Yeah and again these voices that you're going to of course not hear
01:49 and that's the children that's why you get on this ride and do this so you can
01:52 be the voice for them. We've seen documentaries going on we've seen
01:55 documentaries out of Arizona about the abuse that goes on and that's why
01:58 ChildHelp needs you to get involved there and so it's very important and
02:02 that's where BACA comes in and this is it so great is that you have brought
02:06 your brothers with you Nitro to just a few of them I mean there's a lot
02:10 they're gonna be out there riding but this is a very important cause to you
02:13 isn't it? Absolutely we have been around going on 28 years we have a presence in
02:18 22 countries and we're working on Costa Rica, Romania and Portugal right now like
02:23 ChildHelp we are tired of what's happening to our kids and we want to
02:27 give them their voice back they're our future and you know motorcycles riders
02:31 I'm telling you they do a lot of charity work they love to ride let's ride for a
02:35 reason this is a very good reason to ride and even if you don't have a
02:39 motorcycle come on down join us there's a lot of people that drive get in your
02:43 car and come down and join us we've just had enough with it's just getting worse
02:47 and we need like Michael said to collaborate with each other what they do
02:51 we don't do what we do they don't do but together we can do something and it's
02:56 all together for the kids and that is what ChildHelp is all about and that's
03:00 why doing something like this is good kicking off bike week is great way to do
03:05 it especially if you have friends coming in town tell them to get here early you
03:08 know because we do have people coming from all over the country to do this
03:10 come in early register do this and that's what the funds are gonna be going
03:14 to again get help get bills passed help of course support the different ways that
03:18 ChildHealth make sure those kids are taken care of because as you said
03:22 literally right now there's probably a child who is being put into the Child
03:26 Help system because of the abuse and that's what we have to stop right
03:30 absolutely we're receiving a report of abuse every 15 seconds right now in this
03:35 country Arizona is number nine as far as states that are reporting the highest
03:40 levels of child abuse we're seeing a decrease in the victimization of abuse
03:43 but we're seeing an increase in the fatalities of children being abused
03:46 that's why if anybody can go to ChildHelp.org/DayofHopeRide
03:50 register and ride with us on Wednesday April 3rd let your voices and your
03:55 engines be heard for these children who have no voice who need you and also if
03:59 you want to right now head over to Dixon's website order this a great of
04:04 course plaid shirt right now even if you don't ride you feel like you did ride
04:07 right there and that's what that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna actually get one
04:10 and get on my can I get on my brat and bring my fat scooter look at these guys
04:14 looked at me like no don't do that so but I will all right we're gonna find
04:18 more about Baca just give us a call we're a phone call away I mean go to
04:22 BacaWorld.org find the chapter near near you and please you know get in touch
04:27 with them not all chapters have the resources that we do so we try to help
04:30 each other out and and pre-register pre-registration is only $48 to get your
04:36 breakfast to get your raffle tickets for and it gets you into the bike week
04:39 because the day of is a 60 so you want to pre-register to get on that website
04:44 and get it going there it is and of course information is right there on how
04:47 you can get a little child help and register with this amazing event or it's
04:51 over on AZDailyMix.com now let me hopefully get you a want to do some
04:55 riding and in words of our favorite photographer here Maddie I I'm gonna say
05:01 guys can you broom broom for us
05:05 stick around we got more mix for you after this
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