Orphans on Campus

Did you also see these many orphans on campus lately? They all look very lonely and sad. Some are even very dirty; they seem not to be cleaned by any of their parents. You see them in all kind of colours and sizes, painted in orange or blue, or a combination of several colours, like a rainbow. Some look very small, most have a regular size. They all seem to be chained for an unclear reason; not with a little chain, with an enormous chain, sometimes even two!

You can almost hear them crying and shouting, they want to be released, unlocked, unchained and taken away from campus, out in the free, towards the city and feel the road! Why were they left behind, on their own, sunburned in late summer, frozen in winter, hidden under a pack of snow, beaten by hails and storms?

We desperately seek foster mums and foster daddy’s to give these orphans new live and new breathing space. They need to be mounted, these orphans bikes, left behind by students who graduated or those who went back to their home country.

Please adopt one quickly and give it new life!

Hans-Georg van Liempd is program manager internationalisation at TiU and president of EAIE. He blogs for Univers.