TOPEKA, Kan.—A pair of boys are cycling 3,000 miles to help orphans on the other side of the world. Chunjing Neumann, 13, from Virginia, and his best friend, 12-year-old Zachary Ware from Washington D.C. are part of Ride2Freedom.
They stopped in Topeka, the capital of Kansas, on June 25. In Topeka, Zach and Chunjing and their fellow Ride2Freedom riders toured the governor’s office and visited a local legislator’s office.
Kansas is roughly the halfway point for Ride2Freedom. It’s a group of youths between the ages of 11-25 who started in Los Angeles and are cycling to Washington, D.C. and then traveling to New York. Their mission is to raise awareness about the orphans affected by the persecution in China of Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, a peaceful traditional meditation practice. It emphasizes the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, but the Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong practitioners since July 20, 1999.
