Charity motorbike ride across the Sahara Desert in aid of SOS Children

On the 26th December 2005 Tim Fransen AKA Team Essex-Dakar rides out of Grays, Essex on a motorbike in aid of SOS Children in the The Gambia.

I will be travelling through some of the most beautiful, and at times dangerous, terrain the world has to offer. The journey will pass through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Senegal before arriving 20 days and 3700 miles later at the final destination Bakoteh, The Gambia. [The Route]

The SOS Children’s Village in Bakoteh provides orphan and abandoned children with a permanent home and a stable environment. In addition to this facility other aid programmes have been established including a social center, kindergarten, medical center, training center and school. These facilities are not only used by children and youths from the SOS Children's Village but are shared with the wider community, providing further education, a basic medical service and improved social conditions in the long-term.

As well as raising money for the SOS Projects in The Gambia on arrival the motorbike I ride will be donated to the ‘SOS Vocational Training & Production Center’ for use as a teaching aid in the mechanics workshop.

To help raise money for this charity or sponsor the ride please make a donation or buy a Limited Edition Ralph Steadman Poster.

Many Thanks

Tim Fransen [tim@essex-dakar.org]

If you're a two wheeled adventurer and fancy taking part in the Essex-Dakar 2007 leaving late December 2006. [Click Here] If there is enough interest I'll contact you in early Spring 2006 with further information.