Wait. What?
The Mongol Rally is an epic adventure race that spans 1/3 of the world's surface, starting in southern England and ending in Mongolia. We're raising money along the way for three great causes and need your help to do it.
Who do you people think you are?David and Francisca Gilmore, a twenty-something sibling pair. David (shark) is the planner & doer, and a recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Francisca (banana) is the banana, and currently works at Premise Data in San Francisco. We are half-Chinese Ecuadorian, half American mutts who've spent some time living in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the good ole USA, and are now excited to sorely test our sibling bond driving from England to Mongolia!
Our brilliant-but-also-automotively-challenged friend from Costa Rica, Ernest, will also be joining us as we race diagonally across Europe in six days. |
But why? |
Why drive from London to Mongolia, with little-if-any mechanical ability? Because we've been talking about it for a while and its too late to back out now. Also because we'll get to see the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan, Ala-Too Square in Kyrgyzstan, and the Great Steppe along the way. We're in part doing this to raise money for Cool Earth, an organization dedicated to protecting endangered rainforest in order to combat global warming, the YP Foundation, a youth -run and -led organization in India that supports and enables young people to create social policy-influencing projects, and the Ecuadorian Red Cross, which is assisting in the wake of the April earthquake.
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Ok cool. |
So we're definitely a lucky pair of bananas, and we'd like to do some giving back along the way. You can donate money to Cool Earth, the The YP Foundation, and the Ecuadorian Red Cross. We're raising money for the old fashioned PayPal way (donate here), but we are also up for doing some pretty silly challenges to get you to donate (find our challenges here!). This includes David getting a haircut in Uzbekistan, drinking fermented mare's milk in Mongolia, or sending you a postcard from the road!
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We've raised $1,425 so far - we'll do funny stuff (like get a haircut in Uzbekistan or drink fermented mare's milk) for your donations here!
About the Rally
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