Follow the Women's Pedal for Peace in the Middle East programme brings women from all over the world together to partake in an experience like no other. Women participate for different reasons but all leave with a greater understanding of the region and its problems and with a desire to promote peace.

Many of the women who take part in the rides have never ridden a bicycle before, much less taken part in an organised action, but they pedalled away the miles together to promote peace and make the world sit up and take notice.

Hundreds of women cycling through the Middle East is quite a sight and one which gains a great deal of interest from the world's media.

In April 2004, the first ride was across Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. In September 2005, the second bicycle ride took the women from Beirut to Damascus and on to Amman and finally into Ramallah. In April 2007, cycling began in Aleppo, Syria, continuing into Saida, Beirut and other regions of Lebanon, south to Mt. Nebo in Jordan, and finally through Israel's Allenby Bridge Check point into the Palestinian West Bank cities of Jericho, Beit Sahour and Jerusalem.