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MAy 2021 : All for A GooD CAUse

by Helen Tait-Wright

By the time you read this it will be 7 months since I got home after the 2021 Rallye des Gazelles, and it may seem that all has been quiet from me since. In fact, there has been a lot going on behind the scenes, including Priscilla having a rebuild in the UK with a new chassis and a swanky new custom made exhaust system, in preparation for new adventures. It’s great to have her home after 10 weeks away, and we are straight back into training.

I have started fundraising again for my personal charity project, the little school at Talataste in Morocco, and I would like to thank all the people that came along to our Quiz night in March in aid of this cause. I have already hit the 50% mark of the amount I need to enable all the children joining the school in September to receive their personal school supplies; rucksack, pencil case, pencils, crayons, exercise book, pencil sharpener, colouring pens, ruler etc, as we did in 2021. This relatively small gesture really does make such a big impact on the children and their families. At the end of March a new cartoon book was released by the Bioparc at Doue la Fontaine, which features mini stories about all the species at the zoo that are endangered, and we are amused and flattered to be the subject of the story for the Dama gazelles following our support of the project alongside the 2021 rally! Do go and buy the book if you can; it’s in French, naturally, but very informative about the conservation projects and the animals, and supports the wonderful work of the Bioparc team.

Naturally we have rallies planned too, and in fact the first event is at the end of May in the east of France.

The Rallye Dames de Coeur is small in comparison with the Gazelles, but all the proceeds from the event go towards medical research into screening and treatment of women’s cancers.

The event is now in its 7th year and is organised by a fellow Gazelle who competed alongside me in 2019, and I am very pleased to be taking part.

My team mate for this event is Isabelle, a friend from the 4x4 Club at Cholet. No dunes for this, we will be in forest terrain, navigating using a road book and GPS so a whole new challenge!

There is a bit of a theme for this years events as at the beginning of October Priscilla and I will be heading back to Morocco to participate in the very first edition of a brand new rally, also in aid of cancer research. The Rallye Aventurieres Solidaires (100% RAS) will not only give all of the profits to this cause, 70% to the CHU at Poitiers and 30% to a Moroccan facility, but it also supports another Moroccan village, this time in the Moyen Atlas, where we will be distributing donations. I do not have a confirmed team mate at the time of writing but my intention is to run as an all female team in the mixed event, which covers a wide range of terrain over the 2022km route from Fes to Agadir. For the 100% RAS there are sponsorship opportunities if you have a business that you would like to promote alongside our participation, (contact me for details) and I have a stock of the wonderful Munchy Seeds for sale to add to funds too. This time I can offer larger 125g packs of Honey Roasted and Tamari for 4 euros as well as the usual 25g 1 euro snack packs. The snack packs are available only in limited quantities as my stock depends on the available factory stock when I visit! We will shortly also be receiving special bottles of Cremant de Loire Rosé Sec with our personalised labels from our partners Veuve Amiot, for sale at 10 euros a bottle. If you would like to stay abreast of further news on forthcoming events, please contact me via email, helentw@ me.com and ask to be added to our mailing list, and of course follow the social media accounts on Instgram and Facebook @gitigazelles Thank you!

Helen

I imagine that all of us have been touched by cancer at some point in our lives, either personally, or through family and friends, and to be able to participate in a rally for this cause and contribute to the vital research seems to me to be a worthwhile thing to do.