Mongolia Charity Rally
Yearbook
2013
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 offroads) 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
Rally Commander Jo with Rally Coordinator, Javzaa in Mongolia meetin g the teams at the finish line. Together with a sm all team of volunteers , Jo and Javzaa work from opposite sides of the globe to help you live the advent ure of a lifetime, and do a little good in the proces s.
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Alpha Badger Alpha Badger, Oliver Furlow and Antoine Cutayar, met at Oxford Brookes University, where they were staying in the same hall of residence. Oli studied engineering whilst Antoine did a digital media masters 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 Instruments.
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Antoine Cutayar Oliver Furlow 4
Bangersandsmash Ride Again 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 Ulaanbaatar, 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.
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Rachael Bradley Mark Bradley
Tim Marshall Victoria Marshall
John Calvert Kath Calvert
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Bearded Dragons 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-boggling journey that is Go Help’s Mongolia Charity Rally 2013.
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Tom Cardale Paul Nicholls
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Brighton Bandits Alex, Owen & Narmy drive to Mongolia... The 3 of them drove from London to Ulaanbator, Mongolia to deliver an ambulance for use in a community hospital and with it they raised over £1000 pounds for “Go Help”.
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Narmy Brewster Owen Earl
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Due East 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 postponing, they simply changed their route! Due East decided to go South – and they drove to Malta!
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Lewis Lavelle Evy Perez
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Giorgio Galli Giorgio Gambarini
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Keep Calm and Drive to Mongolia FOR FUN, FOR CHARITY, FOR ADVENTURE It’s the project of an adventurous couple, who have a huge passion for travelling and an appetite for adventure. On this mission, their target was Mongolia 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!
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Jacob Zarnel Urszula Przybylinska 14
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Why did they do the Rally? To push a few boundaries, put their love to the test and GO HELP!
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Leo Lourdes Torres 16
Blood, Sweat and Gears On July 6, a donated ambulance began a month-long drive to Ulaanbaatar. It was heading for the Health Sciences University of Mongolia on a journey that started a year and a half earlier 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 doctors in the Netherlands. A hospital in Ulaanbaatar was expecting an ambulance. The drivers of minimal GPs Twente graciously agreed to honor 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.
John Goodman Eric Klein
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Grizzly Penguin In July 2013 Dan, Rob and Alex undertook 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 required them to travel through 14 countries containing deserts, mountain ranges and watercourses all of which they had to cross safely without breaking the vehicle or themselves.
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Mongol Troopers They arrived in Ulaanbaatar, met with Go Help, and swapped donations and Yury for some awesome 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!
Robert Smith Lorna Smith
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On the Road...Again 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
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Stop Yakking Stop Yakking is made up of two crazy young professionals from London 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 difference for those less fortunate and check a few things off their bucket 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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Gold jewellery was the target of burglars who broke into two houses in the city last Thursday, during the daytime in each case. Four gold rings, an 18 carat gold chain and a gent’s watch were stolen from a house on Michael Collins Road, Mervue, and among the haul from the break-in at a house in Ardilaun Road, Newcastle, were two gold rings and a gold locket.
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THE country’s most senior roads chief has indicated that the Galway City Outer Bypass may never be built. Fred Barry, Chief Executive of the National Roads Authority (NRA), paints a bleak picture that if the Supreme Court doesn’t issue a favourable decision on the road project, then it may never materialise. In a letter to Martina Moloney, the County Manager, which has been seen by the Galway City Tribune, Mr Barry indicated that “unless the Supreme Court gives a positive decision it will be many years before the construction of the bypass can proceed, if ever”. The letter is dated February 2013, before the European Court of Justice issued its judgement last week. The Supreme Court asked the ECJ to rule on a point of law about the integrity of Special Areas of Conservation. The matter will now be referred to the Supreme Court, which will make a decision on the appeal against (ABP) An Bórd Pleanála’s approval of the project in light of the ECJ’s interpretation of the EU Habitats Directive. It appears likely that the Supreme Court will quash the Board’s approval in light of the ECJ ruling, although it could take it a year to do so. In that scenario, Mr Barry said it would then have to be decided whether or not to go to ‘Plan B’, and submit it an application as Imperative Reasons of Overriding Public Interest
(IROPI). Mr Barry warned, however, there would be “uncertainty as to how the word ‘imperative’ will be interpreted”. “A successful application would require the support of APB, Government and the EU Commission. “Any new application for approval would probably have to include new environmental surveys, current traffic data, incorporate engineering developments from the near-decade since the conceptual design was carried out and so on. “It would take a couple of years to prepare a new submission for ABP. As you know, we could make no commitment at this stage, but in principle if a new application looked worthwhile we would be keen to go ahead with it.” More worryingly for campaigners for the bypass, Mr Barry said that if the decision of the Supreme Court isn’t favourable – which it is unlikely to be now that the ECJ has ruled – then there are more problems. “If the decision is to quash the approval, then issuing notices to treat won’t arise, and the CPO will lapse. If the decision is that ABP should consider the decision further, it will be necessary to seek a court co-operation to extend the current CPO approval validity, or if it fails, a new CPO application will be required in due course.” Mr Barry’s letter indicates that the Plan B favoured by proponents of the road, may not materialise at all, and even if it does it will “not be a speedy process”.
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, Emirates, sponsors, and Dave Hickey CEO of the Connacht Tribune, sponsors. BY ÓRLA RYAN
A SELF-confessed shoe fan from Loughrea will be jetting off to Dubai thanks to the Galway City Business Association. Psychologist Lillian Stanley won the dream holiday in the GCBA’s Spring Shopping Promotion. The aim of the initiative was to encourage people to shop locally. To be in with a chance of winning, customers had to spend a certain amount – determined in each outlet – in par-
ticipating stores. Ms Stanley (42) entered the draw when she bought a pair of boots at Premoli shoe shop on William Street about a month ago. She thought it was a practical joke when Galway Bay FM’s Keith Finnegan rang her live on air to give her the good news. “I’m absolutely delighted. Once I got over the initial shock I was thrilled,” Ms Stanley said. The luxury holiday prize includes two return tickets to the United Arab Emirates city
and accommodation at the five-star Madenet Jumeriah Hotel. She will be accompanied on the trip by her husband Ronan Killeen, the former Galway United player, and they are both “really looking forward to going”. Ms Stanley is a regular shopper in Premoli and thanked all their staff as well as the GCBA for her “super prize”. The promotion ran over eight weeks from February 8 to April 7. In addition to the overall
winner, there was a weekly draw for vouchers from the participating outlets. Over fifty stores took part in the initiative. Anthony Ryan, Chairperson of the Galway City Business Association, was delighted with how well the spring promotion went. “It was great to have Emirates on board and all of the local retailers who all promoted the promotion within their own stores. It created a great buzz within the city and definitely upped footfall and spend locally,” he added.
St Mary’s past pupils plan for reunion THE past pupils and staff of St Mary’s College, Galway, are gathering for their annual get-together, with a barbeque in the school’s grounds on Saturday, May 11. The organisers would particularly like to see members of 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 from 5pm to 8pm, preceded by Mass in the school at 4pm, and there is also a golf outing for those interested to Oughterard earlier on the Saturday morning. The timesheet has been booked from
7.30am to 9.06am, with the outing to be for teams of four for an am-am format. There is also a singles competition for the Canon McDonagh Cup, and anyone interested can return an individual card in addition to playing as part of an am-am team. Call Mary/Maura in the school office on (091) 522369
to reserve a slot on the timesheet, or for the barbeque. And if that wasn’t enough, there is also a get-together for past pupils with a shared passion for basketball on the day with a blitz to follow on from the centenary event at the school - St Mary’s Principal Ciarán Murphy is looking after affairs on this one.
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WHEN Genghis Khan tried conquering the world, he never made it as far as the Atlantic. Now, three young men from Ireland are bidding to complete the journey in the other direction – on Honda C90 motorbikes. NUI Galway graduates Damien Ryan and Aaron Sheehan are being joined by Paul O’Dwyer as they head on an epic 10,000 mile trip from Limerick to Mongolia in order to raise money for charity. Under the name ‘The Nomadic 90s’, the three men are taking part in the Mongolia Charity Rally 2013 and are raising money for Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin. They chose Temple Street after extraordinary care the hospital gave to Oisin Ryan, Damien’s nephew, after he suffered a brain haemorrhage in February 2012. Oisin was given his last rights as he was rushed from Limerick City to Temple Street Hospital but just over 12 months later, the seven year old has made a
nearly full recovery. Now the three friends are undertaking this journey to help the hospital continue their fantastic service. For men who are about to cross half the world on two wheels, the group are not veteran bikers. Both Paul and Aaron only got their learner’s permits in the past few months and have been learning the ropes since then. Thankfully, Damien has experience of this kind of journey before. In 2011, he travelled from Limerick City to Ghana to raise money for school children in the country. Despite the fact that he doesn’t have a lot of experience, Aaron says that staying upright will not be the group’s biggest challenge. “The bikes are very easy to drive. The main issue will be all the mechanical work. We’ll have to be able to fix the bikes at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere,” he said. The trio are hoping to complete the trip to Mongolia in six weeks. “The bikes can only go around 40mph so that means around 10
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Hitting the road. From left: Damien Ryan, Paul O’Dwyer and Aaron Sheehan. PHOTO: GREG RYAN. to 12 hours a day on the road,” Aaron explained. With some tough mountainous regions along the route, the gang are trying to complete the first leg as quickly as possible before they reach less travelled roads. “We’ll try and do as much as we can on the motorways in Europe and then we can enjoy the sights and scenery in Kazakhstan and places like that,” Aaron said hopefully. While there are close to 300 other teams taking part in the rally, The Nomadic 90s are the only ones making the journey on such low-powered bikes. While most people would consider it insane to travel 10,000 miles in an 88cc motorcycle, Aaron thinks there is method to their madness. “The Honda is the top selling vehicle of all time. That means
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that when we’re travelling through Asia, parts will be easier to come by. The bike is simple to repair compared to bigger bikes.” Aaron, who works in Aquafact Environmental Consultants in Galway, also admits that the popularity and the ‘quirkiness’ of the bike made it the obvious choice. The toughest leg of the trip will be the Pamir Highway in central Asia. “It’s the second highest highway in the world. It will be very tough going with freezing winds, altitude sickness and because of the low oxygen intake the bikes won’t be able to perform much better than 15mph,” Aaron admitted. Even though the road is a daunting prospect, the group are looking forward to the challenge. While they have the opportunity, the Nomadic 90s plan on
staying in hostels across mainland Europe. Once the trio reach Asia, however, they will be breaking out a tent and sleeping under the stars. Along with the tent, all the equipment needed for the journey will be strapped to the three small Honda 90s. “Everything goes on the bikes,” Aaron said, “The backpacks, panniers, tent and all the mechanical stuff will be attached to the frames.” While all this equipment comes at a serious cost, the Nomadic 90s have received sponsorship from Flubit.com, an online retail site. “They’re providing all the protective gear, saddle bags and stuff like that,” Aaron said. When Aaron, Paul, who works in Cisco in Galway, and Damien roll over the finish line in Ulaanbaatar, in central Mon-
golia, they plan on donating the motorcycles to local medical centres where they can be sold off to raise funds. Before they set out on the rally, the three men want to hit their goal of €10,000. They have a number of fundraising events planned before they head off in July. The trio have organised a comedy night in the Róisín Dubh on Friday next, April 26. Stephen Frost’s Improv Allstars will be performing their version of the TV show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’. Tickets are available for €15. Other events coming up include a motorcycle trip around Connemara and a table quiz in Galway in the near future. Anyone interested in attending the events can contact Aaron at 0860618855 or visit their website at limerick2mongolia2013.com.
The Galway Education Centre will host the inaugural Irish Junior Mini Sumo Robot Tournament today – the first tournament of its kind in either Ireland or the UK. 84 students from 9 schools all over the country will battle against each other over the course of the day to see which of their 40 robots would survive and claim the title Irish Junior Mini Sumo Robot Champion for the very first time Robot Sumo is a sport where two Robots (SumoBots) compete to push each other out of a circle. The engineering challenge for the students is to design a Robot that will firstly identify its opponent before hunting it down, targeting it and attacking it successfully, surviving all the while.
Coffee morning for Console
A coffee morning, cake sale and raffle in aid of Console will be held tomorrow (Saturday) in The Huntsman Inn Restaurant, College Road, from 9.30am to 12.30pm.
Damage to parked cars
Damage to a number of parked cars over the past week or so is being investigated by Gardaí. On Saturday evening, a red Ford Fiesta was damaged in the carpark on St Oliver Plunkett Church, Renmore, and a number of items taken including a black handbag with gold link chain and a black Nexus tablet. In the early hours of Friday morning last, the wipers were broken off three vehicles in the carpark of St Ignatius Church, while the previous Tuesday morning a green Peugeot 206 was damaged in rowing club carpark at Waterside.
Seminar for SMEs RaboDirect will host a free half day seminar for SMEs across Connacht in The G Hotel on Thursday next, April 25. Part of the RaboDirect Business Roadshow, the seminar is open to customers and non-customers and will include break out sessions with experts focussing on four key areas for SMEs – Customer Centric Strategies, Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution, Digital Marketing and Work-Life Balance. Speakers include Brian Colbert, Irish Institute of NLP, a leading expert in personal growth; Joe Behan, Behan Dispute Resolution, Brian Corish, Director, Digital Strategy at Cawley Nea / TBWA and Alex Saul, Head of Commercial and Marketing, Connacht Rugby. Keith Wood, the Irish, Munster and Lions legend and RaboDirect’s new voice of rugby, will be the key note speaker at both events. Booking at RaboDirect.ie
Coffee morning for Self Help
The Westside Resource Centre is the venue for a coffee morning in aid of Self Help Africa next Friday, April 26, from 10am to 12noon. Proceeds will go to support women via the provision of small business loans, access to training, tools and good quality seeds to enable them to feed their families on a long term basis particularly in Kenya and Ethiopia.
Talk cancelled A talk by British-based expert Dr Julia O’Connell Davidson on prostitution and the sex trade due to take place in NUI Galway yesterday had to be cancelled due to the grounding of flights into Ireland by strong winds.
Nomadic 90s Paul O’Dwyer Damien Ryan
Aaron Sheehan
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Mechanic Depressives 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 current 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 experiences they had and the people they met met have made it a most rewarding experience.
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Team Yates Goes East They made it!!!! They truck to Go Help and Team yates has gone east!!
handed over the visted the projects.
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Kate Yates Steve Yates 30
Swallow Clan 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
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Suzanne Cahn Michael Cahn
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Rocinante They named themselves 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.
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Dean CK Cox Robin Ewing
St Andrews to Mongolia
Their team is made up of enthusiastic and eager students, who come from all parts of the world and study everything from Russian and philosophy to political science and geology. They also speak 5 languages: French, Russian, Chinese, English and Portuguese, which will benefit the rally tremendously.
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Team Flydown Team Flydown took on the Mongolia Charity Rally with passion 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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Anna Pozzi Giovanna Taddei 36
The Eventualists 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 participant stumped up approximately £1,500 to cover their costs, thereby ensuring the charities receive the maximum support.
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Melissa Coleman Tim Roberts 38
The Goodfellas 8 friends, 1 van, 15,000km for a good cause.
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Cristiano Menci Massimo Amorosi
Daniele Bonacci Laura Casagni
Marco Aiello Jacopo Bonacci
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Lucia Ciarlantini Federico Costi
Vostok Getaway Dimitri, Mike et Nadja, Paris to Ulaanbaatar, over land, for a good cause!
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Dmitry Malikov Nadja Marazanof
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Wild Mizuna Ben Tarver and Cecily Lai took part in the Mongolia 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.
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The YOLO Trip 14 000 km, 35 days, 19 countries, 2 men, 1 truck, 1 destination The team have been best friends for nine years. Because 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 supervising the Star Camp, a summer camp for adults with mental disabilities. When they heard of the Mongolia Charity Rally, they were immediately enthusiastic. What could be better than the combination of charity and adventure? In short, they had to grab this opportunity with both hands.
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OUR PEOPLE THANK YOU 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dulguun Batkhishig was previously head of the Go Help Mongolian Office in Ulaanbaatar. She is now a trustee.
Go Help Regional Officers
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!
Javzaa Myagmar is the Head of the Mongolian Office in Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia charity projects coordinator.
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.
Tseveendavaa Ozoi is our legal advisor in Mongolia. He deals with the Ministry of Finance and Mongolian Customs on vehicle tax exemption.
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.
Uyanga Bold works in our Mongolia office running ouraccounts and assisting with project coordination.
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.
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