the malawi trip

This year with James Bagnall we will be driving from the UK to Cape Town going thru Europe and down the east coast of Africa. . Last year i spent a month living and working with an orphanage in Malawi and leaft with a determination to go back to this beautiful country and help make a difference, this trip with the help of the MOD is the result of that dream. The country of Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world and with one of the highest proportion of orphans to adults in the world. This is because of the ongoing aids and HIV problems in the airya. We aim to raise money for medic Malawi who help develop orphanages, education and structure to help stabilise this countries situation.

We will be travelling thru 18 countries, Uk, France, Spain, Morocco , Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and south Africa. We are planning to spend around 4 months on the road, visiting hospitals and orphanages such as St Andrews hospital and orphanage in Mtunthama.

we have a web page The Malawi Trip and a fackbook group 'the malawi trip'

the more support we get the better. were aiming to raise as much money as possibly, maby later on this year if people are up for it ile try hold a 4x4 day or weekend and proceeds will all go to the charity

I know from our little bit of fundraising experience last year - not always easy and can be really hard work. Good luck to you Wilks.

yep itle be hard work but all worth it in the end

Looks Good, I know your route is still a rough one, but you can't go from Morocco to Algeria, they don't get on.

Good Luck with the fundraising, I believe one of the issues you will have is people may be un-willing to fund what is essentially an adventure trip of a lifetime, but if you are a smooth talker maybe you can pull it off

In fact I wouldn't even mention you were going in a landrover, just say you are going to help out in Malawi, make it sound as boring and as un fun as possible

wilkj91 said:

We will be travelling through 18 countries, Uk, France, Spain, Morocco , Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and south Africa. We are planning to spend around 4 months on the road, visiting hospitals and orphanages such as St Andrews hospital and orphanage in Mtunthama.

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Oops,

Little problem there , , , , , ,
You see, , , , , , getting eastwards from Morocco, is not possible just now, and really hasn't been possible for a long while.

Perhaps your going to ship out of Morocco and land port again in Tunisia ?
I can't have much faith in the fact you will be allowed to drive through.

'vette

Booger said:

adventure trip of

In fact I wouldn't even mention you were going in a landrover, just say you are going (IN A LAND CRUISER) to help out in Malawi, make it sound as boring (NO BREAKDOWNS IS BORING) and as un fun as possible

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my god, I am bad today,,,,,,,,,,,,

Africa does not need "Help".

A land where you can have two crops a year, fertile land, wonderful scenery and wildlife that can make a fortune in tourism; a land where you find in abundance gold, copper, diamonds, iron, aluminium, tantalite, uranium, kaolin, bentonite, vermiculite, oil, silver, tin, precious and semi-precious stones, and most anything you may want... well, people living on such a land do not need "Help".

What they need is Management.

If you really want to make a difference in Africa, there is only one way: you come and live here, establish a business, a farm, a factory, produce anything you want, and export it or sell it locally. You'll create jobs, you'll earn money for the place you are in, you'll have a respected position in society, and you'll be able to use your position to influence decisions at political level through your local friends.

But be warned, it takes at least five years just to start to understand how people and things work here. Because, make no mistakes: people do not function as you think they do. The inner wirings are different. As a European, you can't even begin to comprehend the way things work around here, before you spend years un-learning whatever you think you know.

Then, from that blank slate, you can start writing notes on what you learn, and after a few more years you may be able to act in a way that makes sense. That makes sense here, I mean, not in Europe, because these are two totally different things.

Sorry for the rant, but I've seen and continue to see hundreds of millions of dollars, pounds, euros or whatever spent in absolutely nothing, holes in the sand and totally idiotic projects from well-intentioned NGOs and organisations who want to "Help". And achieve a big enormous farting Nothing.

"Help" the poor, the hungry and the sick? Wonderful. You can save thousands of them. Then they grow up. And they multiply. And they still don't have a job, they still can't farm properly, they still can't take two aspirins without supervision, and instead of having thousands to feed, you now have tens of thousands. And they copulate day and night, and grow exponentially, and you are just contributing to that madness…

Aid to Africa is not a relief, but a harbinger of poverty and disaster, a self-sustaining industry worth billions, into which too many well-meaning and sorely ill-informed people participate without ever even realizing what really happens.

Now, if you pass through Uganda, give me a buzz, you'll stay home a few days, I have hammers and spanners and know where to get parts, and I'll show you around some places (beautiful places, you can't imagine). And maybe I'll talk you into getting down to work here, we need people who know what they are doing and stay, and do their things, and participate, and are useful because they are part of Africa.

But "Help"? Sorry, we don't need that. Not even the orphans down there need it. They'll be much better off if someone starts a real farm on a few hundred hectares, so there will be work and food for them when they grow up. Or a garage, or a furniture factory, or whatever. Business, you know, not money and food and tablets freely distributed with no plan ahead.

Booger said:

Looks Good, I know your route is still a rough one, but you can't go from Morocco to Algeria, they don't get on.

Good Luck with the fundraising, I believe one of the issues you will have is people may be un-willing to fund what is essentially an adventure trip of a lifetime, but if you are a smooth talker maybe you can pull it off

In fact I wouldn't even mention you were going in a landrover, just say you are going to help out in Malawi, make it sound as boring and as un fun as possible

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now then, just wot i was thinking, help out, :doh:

ye ime i no ime going to change my route i did not notice the border problem when i picked it 1st of but ime still aiming for east coast

kano = i know Africa has everything it needs to be stabul and i am relay considering moving out there later in life but for now ime doing what i can for children that do need help.

as I understand at the present time; Morocco - Algeria - Tunisia - Libya is ok, crossings have been made recently, the border between Algeria and Libya is closed.

ye the tunisia link was what i was looking at but ime going to footloose 4x4 in a few days so will get a route planed while there