Mongolia Charity Rally

Yearbook2013

Charity Ralliers,It has been a while since you finished the epic Mongolia Charity Rally but we hope the experience is still very much alive in your minds. But just in case, we have finally got around to compiling the very first ever Mongolia Charity Rally Yearbook to help spark those memories!

This is a compilation of some of your best pics and hopefully will be a memento you can keep to help you remember the amazing weeks you spent driving some of the hardest roads (and indeed off-roads) in the world, and for such a worthy cause.

On behalf of the whole Charity Rallies team, thank you for the effort you all put in, the time you spent, the money you raised, and the fun you shared. You are now officially a Charity Rallier and we hope you stay in touch!

Jo

Joanna Meade Rally Commander

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Rally Commander Jo with Rally Coordinator, Javzaa in Mongolia meeting the teams at the finish line.

Together with a small team of volunteers, Jo and Javzaa work from opposite sides of the globe to help you live the adventure of a lifetime, and do a little good in the process.

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Alpha Badger, Oliver Furlow and Antoine Cutayar, met at Oxford Brookes University, where they were staying in the same hall of resi-dence. Oli studied engineering whilst Antoine did a digital media mas-ters course. It seems like yesterday, but a whole decade has passed since their university days. Fast forward in time, Antoine is now working as a Managing Designer at Macmillan Education (publishing). Oli is a technician, building prototypes and testing new designs at Malvern In-struments.

Alpha Badger

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Antoine CutayarOliver Furlow

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Father and daughter did the Banjul Challenge.Father wanted another adventure, but family couldn’t take the time off work to travel all the way to Mongolia, so they came up with a cunning plan. Mother and Father were to drive all the way to Ul-aanbaatar, taking a relatively leisurely 6 weeks, starting from Horse Guards Parade, London on July 6th 2013.Daughter No.1 and husband were to join for two weeks from Kiev

to Astana. Daughter No.2 and husband were to join for the final leg from Astana to Ulaanbaatar.And they did it.

Bangersandsmash Ride Again

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Rachael Bradley Mark Bradley

John Calvert Kath Calvert

Tim Marshall Victoria Marshall

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Three men grow beards for Charity (on a 10,000 mile drive to Mongolia). A team of budding explorers, wannabe adventurists and dedicated fundraisers who embarked on the mind-bog-gling journey that is Go Help’s Mongolia Charity Rally 2013.

Bearded Dragons

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Tom Cardale Paul Nicholls

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Charles Nicholls

Alex, Owen & Narmy drive to Mongolia...The 3 of them drove from London to Ulaan-bator, Mongolia to deliver an ambulance for use in a community hospi-tal and with it they raised over £1000 pounds for “Go Help”.

Brighton Bandits

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Narmy Brewster Owen Earl

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Alex Stirling-Reed

Following complications with Russian visas, delays meant that getting new visas for a different route to Mongolia was going to be tough, so Due East had to come up with a new plan. They did something no other Mongolia Charity Rally team has done before… rather than

p o s t p o n -ing, they simply changed their route! Due East decided to go South – and they drove to Malta!

Due East

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Lewis LavelleEvy Perez

Kathy O’Malley Aliona Syksina

Exporteam

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Giorgio GalliGiorgio Gambarini

Tommaso Raco

FOR FUN, FOR CHARITY, FOR ADVENTURE

It’s the project of an adventurous couple, who have a huge passion for trav-elling and an appetite for adventure. On this mission, their target was Mon-golia and they would be the first Polish couple in the history of this rally!They don’t like to make things easy for themselves, that’s why they decided to cross over 16.000 kilometres through 18 countries in a minivan in just 4 weeks!

Keep Calm and Drive to Mongolia

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Jacob ZarnelUrszula Przybylinska

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Why did they do the Rally? To push a few boundaries, put their love to the test and GO HELP!

Leo y Lou

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LeoLourdes Torres

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On July 6, a donated ambulance began a month-long drive to Ulaanbaatar. It was heading for the Health Sciences Uni-versity of Mongolia on a journey that started a year and a half ear-lier when Blood, Sweat and Gears began searching for an ambulance donation.

Their original plan was to ship an ambulance from the US to Istanbul and drive the remaining 6,000 miles to Mongolia. That plan had to be abandoned in June after the US company, which had committed to giving them an ambulance in 2012, repeatedly delayed and finally denied them their promised donation.

They quickly worked out a deal with Minimal GPs Twente, a team of doc-tors in the Netherlands. A hospital in Ulaanbaatar was expecting an am-bulance. The drivers of minimal GPs Twente graciously agreed to hon-or the commitment by donating the ambulance they were driving.

With no vehicle of their own now, they still wanted to see Mongolia. They flew to Ulaanbaatar and made plans to join the doctors and their ambulance in western Mongolia, not far from the border with Russia.

Despite several attempts at meeting en route, The team never caught up with minimal GPs Twente until after they’d reached the finish line in Ulaanbaatar. Once they found them at the Kaiser Hotel, they spent a gratifying evening drinking beer before their train ride at dawn to Beijing.

Blood, Sweat and Gears

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John Goodman Eric Klein

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Minimal GPs Twente

In July 2013 Dan, Rob and Alex under-took an exciting trip to Mongolia for ‘Go Help’. To do so, they purchased a suitable off-road vehicle which they drove from Exeter to Mongolia (around 8000 miles) and then donated to Go Help upon arrival. This journey re-quired them to travel through 14 countries containing de-serts, mountain ranges and watercourses all of which they had to cross safely without breaking the vehicle or themselves.

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Alexander Nimmo Daniel Brown Robert Parsley

Mongol Troopers

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Robert SmithLorna Smith

Sam McGoughan

They arrived in Ulaanbaatar, met with Go Help, and swapped donations and Yury for some awe-some trophies. It was a tough 4 weeks, full of highs and lows, there were more than a few times they thought all hope was lost but Yury and some determination pulled them through!

9 weeks from London to Ulaanbaatar; 16,732km driven; 15 countries visited; 8 sponsors; 1,435L of fuel used; 0 breakdowns; 1 rescue needed; 3 rescues undertaken; 18 nights camping; 10 bribe attempts; 147 ‘likes’ and 9,933 hits on the blog.

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Dorothy McCartney Alex Nicholson

Catherine Nicholson

Stop Yakking is made up of two crazy young professionals from Lon-don who thought they’d probably trash their car by hitting a yak 1

mile away from the finish line. They were looking to make a differ-ence for those less fortunate and check a few things off their buck-

et lists in doing so. They share a passion for taking part in huge adventurous events, especially when raising money for charity. The Mongolia Charity Rally quickly made its way to the top of

their bucket lists earlier in 2012 when they agreed to sign up as a team for 2013. Their day job may have them stuck in offices all day in the City of London, but they weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty for a once in a lifetime opportunity and to raise money for the less fortunate.

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Ashley Ferguson Anna Skentelbery

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Daylight robberiesare investigatedGold jewellery was the targetof burglars who broke intotwo houses in the city lastThursday, during the daytimein each case.

Four gold rings, an 18 caratgold chain and a gent’s watchwere stolen from a house onMichael Collins Road,Mervue, and among the haulfrom the break-in at a housein Ardilaun Road, Newcastle,were two gold rings and agold locket.

Clash ofthe robotsThe Galway Education Cen-tre will host the inauguralIrish Junior Mini Sumo RobotTournament today – the firsttournament of its kind ineither Ireland or the UK. 84students from 9 schools allover the country will battleagainst each other over thecourse of the day to see whichof their 40 robots would sur-vive and claim the title IrishJunior Mini Sumo RobotChampion for the very firsttime

Robot Sumo is a sportwhere two Robots(SumoBots) compete to pusheach other out of a circle. Theengineering challenge for thestudents is to design a Robotthat will firstly identify itsopponent before hunting itdown, targeting it and attack-ing it successfully, survivingall the while.

Coffee morningfor ConsoleA coffee morning, cake saleand raffle in aid of Consolewill be held tomorrow (Satur-day) in The Huntsman InnRestaurant, College Road,from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

Damage toparked carsDamage to a number ofparked cars over the pastweek or so is being investigat-ed by Gardaí.

On Saturday evening, a redFord Fiesta was damaged inthe carpark on St OliverPlunkett Church, Renmore,and a number of items takenincluding a black handbagwith gold link chain and ablack Nexus tablet.

In the early hours of Fridaymorning last, the wipers werebroken off three vehicles inthe carpark of St IgnatiusChurch, while the previousTuesday morning a greenPeugeot 206 was damaged inrowing club carpark atWaterside.

Seminar for SMEsRaboDirect will host a freehalf day seminar for SMEsacross Connacht in The GHotel on Thursday next, April25. Part of the RaboDirectBusiness Roadshow, the semi-nar is open to customers andnon-customers and willinclude break out sessionswith experts focussing on fourkey areas for SMEs – Cus-tomer Centric Strategies, Con-flict Management and DisputeResolution, Digital Marketingand Work-Life Balance.

Speakers include Brian Col-bert, Irish Institute of NLP, aleading expert in personalgrowth; Joe Behan, BehanDispute Resolution, BrianCorish, Director, Digital Strat-egy at Cawley Nea / TBWAand Alex Saul, Head of Com-mercial and Marketing, Con-nacht Rugby. Keith Wood,the Irish, Munster and Lionslegend and RaboDirect’s newvoice of rugby, will be the keynote speaker at both events.Booking at RaboDirect.ie

Coffee morning for Self HelpThe Westside Resource Cen-tre is the venue for a coffeemorning in aid of Self HelpAfrica next Friday, April 26,from 10am to 12noon.

Proceeds will go to supportwomen via the provision ofsmall business loans, access totraining, tools and good quali-ty seeds to enable them tofeed their families on a longterm basis particularly inKenya and Ethiopia.

Talk cancelledA talk by British-based expertDr Julia O’Connell Davidsonon prostitution and the sextrade due to take place inNUI Galway yesterday had tobe cancelled due to thegrounding of flights into Ire-land by strong winds.

Shopping fan Lillian wins holiday ofa lifetime with dream trip to Dubai

BY ÓRLA RYAN

A SELF-confessed shoe fanfrom Loughrea will be jettingoff to Dubai thanks to theGalway City Business Asso-ciation.

Psychologist Lillian Stanleywon the dream holiday in theGCBA’s Spring Shopping Pro-motion.

The aim of the initiative wasto encourage people to shoplocally. To be in with a chanceof winning, customers had tospend a certain amount – deter-mined in each outlet – in par-

ticipating stores.Ms Stanley (42) entered the

draw when she bought a pair ofboots at Premoli shoe shop onWilliam Street about a monthago. She thought it was a prac-tical joke when Galway BayFM’s Keith Finnegan rang herlive on air to give her the goodnews.

“I’m absolutely delighted.Once I got over the initialshock I was thrilled,” Ms Stan-ley said.

The luxury holiday prizeincludes two return tickets tothe United Arab Emirates city

and accommodation at thefive-star Madenet JumeriahHotel.

She will be accompanied onthe trip by her husband RonanKilleen, the former GalwayUnited player, and they areboth “really looking forward togoing”.

Ms Stanley is a regular shop-per in Premoli and thanked alltheir staff as well as the GCBAfor her “super prize”.

The promotion ran overeight weeks from February 8 toApril 7.

In addition to the overall

winner, there was a weeklydraw for vouchers from theparticipating outlets. Over fiftystores took part in the initiative.

Anthony Ryan, Chairpersonof the Galway City BusinessAssociation, was delighted withhow well the spring promotionwent.

“It was great to have Emi-rates on board and all of thelocal retailers who all promot-ed the promotion within theirown stores. It created a greatbuzz within the city and defi-nitely upped footfall and spendlocally,” he added.

Lillian Stanley from Loughrea (centre), winner of the Galway City Business Association (GCBA) Holiday to Dubai promotion,pictured receiving her prize from Anthony Ryan, GCBA Chairman, joined by Mary Bennett, GCBA, Eileen Penrose, Sales, Emi-rates, sponsors, and Dave Hickey CEO of the Connacht Tribune, sponsors.

St Mary’s past pupils plan for reunionTHE past pupils and staff ofSt Mary’s College, Galway,are gathering for their annu-al get-together, with a bar-beque in the school’sgrounds on Saturday, May11.

The organisers would par-ticularly like to see membersof the ‘anniversary classes’ –those who sat their Leaving

Certs in 1963, 1988 and 2003– come back for their 50th,25th and 10th anniversaries.

The barbeque runs from5pm to 8pm, preceded byMass in the school at 4pm,and there is also a golf outingfor those interested toOughterard earlier on the Sat-urday morning. The time-sheet has been booked from

7.30am to 9.06am, with theouting to be for teams of fourfor an am-am format.

There is also a singles com-petition for the CanonMcDonagh Cup, and anyoneinterested can return an indi-vidual card in addition to play-ing as part of an am-am team.

Call Mary/Maura in theschool office on (091) 522369

to reserve a slot on the time-sheet, or for the barbeque.

And if that wasn’t enough,there is also a get-together forpast pupils with a shared pas-sion for basketball on the daywith a blitz to follow on fromthe centenary event at theschool - St Mary’s PrincipalCiarán Murphy is lookingafter affairs on this one.

Bypassmay beparked foreverBY DARA BRADLEY

THE country’s most seniorroads chief has indicated thatthe Galway City Outer Bypassmay never be built.

Fred Barry, Chief Executive ofthe National Roads Authority(NRA), paints a bleak picturethat if the Supreme Court does-n’t issue a favourable decision onthe road project, then it maynever materialise.

In a letter to MartinaMoloney, the County Manager,which has been seen by the Gal-way City Tribune, Mr Barry indi-cated that “unless the SupremeCourt gives a positive decision itwill be many years before theconstruction of the bypass canproceed, if ever”.

The letter is dated February2013, before the EuropeanCourt of Justice issued its judge-ment last week. The SupremeCourt asked the ECJ to rule on apoint of law about the integrity ofSpecial Areas of Conservation.

The matter will now bereferred to the Supreme Court,which will make a decision onthe appeal against (ABP) AnBórd Pleanála’s approval of theproject in light of the ECJ’s inter-pretation of the EU HabitatsDirective.

It appears likely that theSupreme Court will quash theBoard’s approval in light of theECJ ruling, although it couldtake it a year to do so.

In that scenario, Mr Barrysaid it would then have to bedecided whether or not to go to‘Plan B’, and submit it an appli-cation as Imperative Reasons ofOverriding Public Interest

(IROPI).Mr Barry warned, however,

there would be “uncertainty asto how the word ‘imperative’ willbe interpreted”.

“A successful applicationwould require the support ofAPB, Government and the EUCommission.

“Any new application forapproval would probably haveto include new environmentalsurveys, current traffic data,incorporate engineering devel-opments from the near-decadesince the conceptual design wascarried out and so on.

“It would take a couple ofyears to prepare a new submis-sion for ABP. As you know, wecould make no commitment atthis stage, but in principle if anew application looked worth-while we would be keen to goahead with it.”

More worryingly for cam-paigners for the bypass, Mr Barrysaid that if the decision of theSupreme Court isn’t favourable –which it is unlikely to be nowthat the ECJ has ruled – thenthere are more problems.

“If the decision is to quash theapproval, then issuing notices totreat won’t arise, and the CPOwill lapse. If the decision is thatABP should consider the deci-sion further, it will be necessaryto seek a court co-operation toextend the current CPOapproval validity, or if it fails, anew CPO application will berequired in due course.”

Mr Barry’s letter indicates thatthe Plan B favoured by propo-nents of the road, may not mate-rialise at all, and even if it does itwill “not be a speedy process”.

Roads chief paints bleakpicture for future of project

One tent, three bikes and 10,000 miles ofopen road is prospect for two city workersBY PÁDRAIC Ó CIARDHA

WHEN Genghis Khan triedconquering the world, he nevermade it as far as the Atlantic.Now, three young men fromIreland are bidding to completethe journey in the other direc-tion – on Honda C90 motor-bikes.

NUI Galway graduatesDamien Ryan and Aaron Shee-han are being joined by PaulO’Dwyer as they head on anepic 10,000 mile trip from Lim-erick to Mongolia in order toraise money for charity.

Under the name ‘TheNomadic 90s’, the three men aretaking part in the MongoliaCharity Rally 2013 and are rais-ing money for Temple StreetChildren’s Hospital in Dublin.They chose Temple Street afterextraordinary care the hospitalgave to Oisin Ryan, Damien’snephew, after he suffered abrain haemorrhage in February2012.

Oisin was given his last rightsas he was rushed from LimerickCity to Temple Street Hospitalbut just over 12 months later,the seven year old has made a

nearly full recovery.Now the three friends are

undertaking this journey to helpthe hospital continue their fan-tastic service.

For men who are about tocross half the world on twowheels, the group are not veter-an bikers. Both Paul and Aarononly got their learner’s permits inthe past few months and havebeen learning the ropes sincethen. Thankfully, Damien hasexperience of this kind of journeybefore. In 2011, he travelled fromLimerick City to Ghana to raisemoney for school children in thecountry.

Despite the fact that he does-n’t have a lot of experience,Aaron says that staying uprightwill not be the group’s biggestchallenge.

“The bikes are very easy todrive. The main issue will be allthe mechanical work. We’ll haveto be able to fix the bikes at theside of the road in the middle ofnowhere,” he said.

The trio are hoping to com-plete the trip to Mongolia in sixweeks.

“The bikes can only go around40mph so that means around 10

to 12 hours a day on the road,”Aaron explained.

With some tough mountain-ous regions along the route, thegang are trying to complete thefirst leg as quickly as possiblebefore they reach less travelledroads.

“We’ll try and do as much aswe can on the motorways inEurope and then we can enjoythe sights and scenery in Kaza-khstan and places like that,”Aaron said hopefully.

While there are close to 300other teams taking part in therally, The Nomadic 90s are theonly ones making the journey onsuch low-powered bikes. Whilemost people would consider itinsane to travel 10,000 miles inan 88cc motorcycle, Aaronthinks there is method to theirmadness.

“The Honda is the top sellingvehicle of all time. That means

that when we’re travellingthrough Asia, parts will be easierto come by. The bike is simple torepair compared to bigger bikes.”

Aaron, who works inAquafact Environmental Con-sultants in Galway, also admitsthat the popularity and the‘quirkiness’ of the bike made itthe obvious choice.

The toughest leg of the tripwill be the Pamir Highway incentral Asia.

“It’s the second highest high-way in the world. It will be verytough going with freezing winds,altitude sickness and because ofthe low oxygen intake the bikeswon’t be able to perform muchbetter than 15mph,” Aaronadmitted. Even though the roadis a daunting prospect, the groupare looking forward to the chal-lenge.

While they have the opportu-nity, the Nomadic 90s plan on

staying in hostels across main-land Europe. Once the trio reachAsia, however, they will bebreaking out a tent and sleepingunder the stars.

Along with the tent, all theequipment needed for the jour-ney will be strapped to the threesmall Honda 90s.

“Everything goes on thebikes,” Aaron said, “The back-packs, panniers, tent and all themechanical stuff will be attachedto the frames.”

While all this equipmentcomes at a serious cost, theNomadic 90s have receivedsponsorship from Flubit.com, anonline retail site.

“They’re providing all the pro-tective gear, saddle bags and stufflike that,” Aaron said.

When Aaron, Paul, whoworks in Cisco in Galway, andDamien roll over the finish linein Ulaanbaatar, in central Mon-

golia, they plan on donating themotorcycles to local medicalcentres where they can be soldoff to raise funds.

Before they set out on therally, the three men want to hittheir goal of €10,000. They havea number of fundraising eventsplanned before they head off inJuly.

The trio have organised acomedy night in the RóisínDubh on Friday next, April 26.Stephen Frost’s Improv Allstarswill be performing their versionof the TV show ‘Whose Line IsIt Anyway’. Tickets are availablefor €15.

Other events coming upinclude a motorcycle trip aroundConnemara and a table quiz inGalway in the near future. Any-one interested in attending theevents can contact Aaron at0860618855 or visit their websiteat limerick2mongolia2013.com.

Hitting the road. From left: Damien Ryan, Paul O’Dwyer and Aaron Sheehan. PHOTO: GREG RYAN.

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Michael Henn Sandro Lang

Paul O’DwyerDamien Ryan

Aaron Sheehan

Swabian Horde

They travelled 10,000 miles across Europe and Asia, and finished the rally. OTheir objective was to raise money for charity, which they did, and to deliver a vehicle that Go Help could use. This they also did – the car in Mongolia, even in its cur-rent state, is worth around $25,000, and this will help fund the excellent projects.The adventure was a long and difficult one, but ultimately one they will look back on as one of their more memorable endeavours. The places they saw, the experi-

ences they had and the people they met met have made it a most re-warding experience.

Mechanic Depressives

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Farhan Kadri Amir Rabbani

They made it!!!! They handed over the truck to Go Help and visted the projects. Team yates has gone east!!

Team Yates Goes East

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Kate YatesSteve Yates

Swallow Clan

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Along the way, they would:• visit & help on local projects;• talk to people overcoming challenges;• record stories from the people they meet• bring appropriate heritage and open pollinated seeds from Irish seed organizations to the vegetable growing projects as donations;• visit the wild apple forests (where all Apple trees originally came from!) in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Eli Cahn Rosa Cahn

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Suzanne Cahn Michael Cahn

They named them-selves Rocinante after Don

Quixote’s scrawny horse who was in way over his head and in hommage to

John Steinbeck, who travelled across the United States with his poodle in a camper truck of the same name.

Rocinante

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Dean CK CoxRobin Ewing

Jamie Ewing

St Andrews to Mongolia

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Marconi Filho Michael Blackley

Igor Chapman Conrad Diehl

Their team is made up of enthusiastic and ea-ger students, who come from all parts of the world and study everything from Russian and philosophy to political science and ge-ology. They also speak 5 languages: French, Russian, Chinese, English and Portuguese, which will benefit the rally tremendously.

Team Flydown took on the Mongolia Charity Rally with pas-sion and solidarity. They work for a the association “Io Corro

…per un sorriso” (I run…for a smile). They drove a Panda Van 1100cc from 2004, suitably modified to be able to travel

the miles that separate us from the finish line in Ulaanbaatar.

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Team Flydown

Anna Pozzi Giovanna Taddei

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Two local firms, Colemans Office Supplies & Bluebird Care (Stratford & Warwick) joined forces to send these two fools to the other side of the world – maybe in the hope they wouldn’t return?! Each partici-

pant stumped up approxi-mately £1,500 to cover their costs, thereby en-suring the charities re-

ceive the maximum support.

The Eventualists

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Melissa ColemanTim Roberts

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8 friends, 1 van, 15,000km for a good cause.

The Goodfellas

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Cristiano MenciMassimo Amorosi

Marco Aiello Jacopo Bonacci

Daniele Bonacci Laura Casagni

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Lucia Ciarlantini Federico Costi

Dimitri, Mike et Nadja, Par-is to Ulaanbaatar, over land, for a good cause!

Vostok Getaway

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Dmitry MalikovNadja Marazanof

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Michael Pont

Ben Tarver and Cecily Lai took part in the Mon-golia Charity Rally 2013, a journey that started from Wootton, UK and ended in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 10,000 miles of pure adventure over mountains, deserts and some of

the most remote terrain on the planet.

Wild Mizuna

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Ben Tarver and Cecily Lai

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14 000 km, 35 days, 19 countries, 2 men, 1 truck, 1 destinationThe team have been best friends for nine years. Be-cause they have a sibling with Downs syndrome, they have both been involved in charitable efforts to help others for many years. For the past 5 years actively involved in organizing and su-pervising the Star Camp, a summer camp for adults with mental disabilities.When they heard of the Mongolia Charity Rally, they were immediately enthu-siastic. What could be better than the combination of charity and adventure? In short, they had to grab this opportunity with both hands.

The YOLO Trip

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Dimitri Lenaerts Tom Van Haute

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Board of Trustees

David Griffiths is a co-founder of Go Help and Chairman of the Board of trustees. He is a lawyer based in New York with significant pro bono and human rights related experience, having worked with UN-ICTR, UN-WFP and the OAS.

William Dodsworth is a co-founder of Go Help. He is a lawyer based in London. He has also worked as a teacher at the Mongolian National Legal Centre.

David Treanor is a veteran of Go Help having taken part in the Mongolia Charity Rally back in 2009 and later writing a book about his experiences. He became a trustee in 2013.

Charity Rallies Coordinators

Joanna Meade manages the events and communications for Go Help and is Charity Rallies’ Rally Commander. She tested the MesoAmerica Charity rally in 2011 and will be rallying to Mongolia in 2015!

Sophie Willingale runs the fundraising and development for the Roof of the World Charity Rally and the general administration and events for Go Help in the UK.

Murray Johnson was in one of our most memorable teams on the Roof of the World Charity Rally. He is the brains behind the MesoAmerica charity Rally and he manages it from the U.S.

Charlie Hogg took part in the Mongolia Charity Rally in 2008 driving the first fully equipped ambulance to Mongolia. He joined the board of trustees in 2009 and won the Rotary Young Citizen of the Year award the same year.

Ryan Walker is a founder of the annual Go Help fundraising event the Roof of the World Charity Rally. He works for Mercedes F1 and became a trustee in 2010.

Dulguun Batkhishig was previously head of the Go Help Mongolian Office in Ulaanbaatar. She is now a trustee.

Go Help Regional Officers

Javzaa Myagmar is the Head of the Mongo- lian Office in Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia charity projects coordinator.

Tseveendavaa Ozoi is our legal advisor in Mongolia. He deals with the Ministry of Finance and Mongolian Customs on vehicle tax exemption.

Uyanga Bold works in our Mongolia office running ouraccounts and assisting with project coordination.

OUR PEOPLE THANK YOU

AND OUR PARTNERS THANK YOU

Real Russia - http://realrussia.co.uk/charities

Real Russia supports Go Help by offering a bespoke visa service for all the rally teams taking part in The Mongolia Charity Rally. Visas for the teams are heavily discounted and they have dedicated staff and website pages for assisting the Rally teams. Real Russia is an independent company that specialises in Russian and Central Asian visas and travel services for business people, tourists and

independent travelers. They have a 100% success rate, even with problematic or urgent visa applications.

Big Yellow Storage - http://www.bigyellow.co.uk/store/Balham-self-storage

The Big Yellow Self Storage Company has donated free storage space to Go Help. Go Help doesn’t have an office and the support of having free storage is hugely helpful for the charity and volunteers, especially considering the events we run. Big Yellow provides the best quality facilities for short term storage, long term, personal, business and student self-storage.

Viewranger - http://www.viewranger.com/en-GB

ViewRanger is a tool that can track your team in real time and allow you to navigate with detailed mapping and GPS. ViewRanger turns your iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone/Tablet, Blackberry 10 or Nokia Symbian device into a fully functional offline GPS navigation and

mapping device. We prefer to work with small grassroots organisations that have a greater understanding of local needs and who have cost effective and useful projects benefiting the community.

THANK YOUfor

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and raising money for