{"id":57275,"date":"2017-04-25T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T19:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=57275"},"modified":"2017-04-25T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:16:34","slug":"cyclists-use-pedal-power-to-make-a-difference-for-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/cyclists-use-pedal-power-to-make-a-difference-for-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclists use pedal power to make a difference for the homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jiayan Jenny Shi and Xufei Geng<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Mas Contractor, owner of the non-profit Bike4Life bicycle shop in\u00a0Logan Square, learned long ago the power of helping others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandfather used to always say you need to help one person in the world,&#8221; Contractor\u00a0said. &#8220;If you can help one person, then you did your deed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Contractor\u00a0and a group of fellow cyclists decided to\u00a0do some good deeds for the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent Saturday, more than 100 cyclists volunteered\u00a0to deliver food to\u00a0homeless people in some 20 locations around the city.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Cyclists Deliver Food to the Homeless\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/214723815?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Bike4Life founder Mas Contractor talks to volunteers before they deliver food.(Jiayan Jenny Shi\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jiayan Jenny Shi and Xufei Geng Mas Contractor, owner of the non-profit Bike4Life bicycle shop in\u00a0Logan Square, learned long ago the power of helping others. &#8220;My grandfather used to always say you need to help one person in the world,&#8221; Contractor\u00a0said. &#8220;If you can help one person, then you did your deed.&#8221; Two years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":57365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winter-2017"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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