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Project Mobility was founded in 2002 by Hal Honeyman. Hal's son, Jacob, was born with cerebral palsy. Hal wanted to find a way for Jacob to join the family when bicycle riding. After Jacob's needs were met, Hal realized a huge demand for adaptive cycling which led to the formation of Project Mobility.
Project Mobility is the nonprofit arm of The Bike Rack in St. Charles. Our mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of children, adults, and wounded soldiers with disabilities, autism and cancer. Through adaptive cycling, we provide the services, resources, and equipment to promote better health, independence, and freedom of mobility.
Our specialized bikes create a sense of freedom for those who are disabled, removing the perceived limitations of disability.
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Who We Are Raising Money For - 2024
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We Help the Community
Remembering Jacob Aho
By joining us at Hops for Hope and making a donation to Project Mobility you help us bring hope and happiness to those who are often told by society that their life is about limitations. Donations are truly changing a life one bike at a time. Sometimes that life is unfortunately cut too short but the happiness that you helped us give that child will live on forever. It is with heavy hearts that we share the note we received the other day:
"Project Mobility… I’m brokenhearted to share that Jacob Aho passed away this weekend."
We met Jacob back in 2021. He was 12 years old and had been battling brain cancer for over 8 years. Dozens of surgeries and chemotherapy sessions had saved his life, but he’d lost a great deal: he’d worked hard to walk, but couldn’t run or jump, and fatigued quickly – but he kept trying.
Jacob’s mom wrote to us at Project Mobility asking for help. She explained that the cancer and treatments had left him “missing out on so much,” including riding a bike. He’d been too little to learn before his diagnosis, and afterward “the height off the ground, the handlebars so far away, balancing (even with training wheels was difficult), knowing to push back to brake – it was all too much.”
She told us how nice it would be to give him this one thing back, and to have him “get on HIS bike and ride down the street.” She said that it would be “a way to give something back to Jacob’s childhood.”
When Project Mobility gave Jacob his own bike at our Hops for Hope event in 2021, it made a profound difference in not only Jacob’s life but his twin sister, his friends and family. His mom wrote again:
“Project Mobility … look what you did! Jacob has been out and about loving how fast he can go. I’ve had to put my running shoes on to keep up.... I had to hold my tears back the first day he rode.”
His mom wrote to say Jacob passed away on December 31, 2023. Even in her grief, she wanted to know how to continue the joy we gave to Jacob and pass the bike along to another child. We mourn Jacob’s passing and are awestruck at the love and spirit he and his family demonstrated.
Please consider making a donation today to help us continue to
change lives one bike at a time
