Dear Tim,

I have just received news about your motorbike! It is now being used by the youth supervisor so he can visit the youths who live a long way from the Village. The youth supervisor is so pleased with this bike and it makes his job, which is very important, much easier. Please find attached a photograph and a report on how the bike is being used.

I'm so glad that the bike is being used for such an important job. I will write to SOS Gambia and thank them.

I hope you're having a lovely summer.

With best wishes,

Rachel Bennett - Fundraising Assistant
SOS Children - UK

Motorcycle Report

A special motorbike has found a happy and caring home in the SOS Youth Facility of Bakoteh, The Gambia, in exchange of valuable services.

The New Motorbike of The Youth Supervisor

Mr Gibba, director of the SOS Youth Facility of Bakoteh, has been a biker for ages and loves motorbikes. No wonder he was so interested in getting the donated motorbike for the youth facility!

Despite all the odds and advice I survived the 3700-mile solo trip and somehow managed to deliver the motorcycle gift in one piece to SOS Children.

Robert Edison Fulton JR once said, "Riding a motorcycle is technology's closest equivalent to being a cowboy...

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.