Charity Rally: 6,000km+ to Jordan in old bangers
Fundraising campaign by
Ellen Schmid
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£1,639.00raised of £3,100.00 goal goal
No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities
Campaign Story
6,000km (and probably more)
Three 20 year-old cars
Six people
Small roads
No GPS
No clue
What's happening?!
From May 5th to 28th, Team Tried & Rusted will embark on a great, daunting, long, uncomfortable, weird and wonderful adventure: The Europe-Orient-Rally 2018 (formerly Allgäu-Orient-Rally).
The charity rally, now in its 13th year and organised by a bunch of comfortingly insane guys from Bavaria, serves three equally important purposes: Charity, cross-cultural communication and fun.
The idea is simple: Teams of six people drive three 20 year old cars from Germany to Jordan. Along the route, teams must complete tasks for good causes and in the end, the registration fee as well as any money made from selling the rally cars (or their remaining parts) goes to a charity.
That all sounds dreamy, but to get there, we’ll first have to get there in our collection of rattletraps and old bangers - each worth no more than €1,111 - which, by the way, we also have to sleep in, on or next to! Add to that our "limited" mechanical skills, a ban on toll roads and motorways, and a requirement to navigate purely by map and compass… it's not uncommon that teams lose vehicles or get royally lost, racking up an additional 2,000km. All part of the fun!
What's it for?
Previous years’ results included providing hearing aids for over 1,000 children with hearing disabilities in Jordan (including super-expensive cochlear implants for 30 children!), the installation of a water lab at a rural university in Jordan to teach students about water purification, and the creation of 15 scholarships for children from poor (Bedouin) families in rural areas to attend high school.
Examples of non-financial support the rally has been able to provide to locations en route include the deliveries of 120 wheelchairs to Jordan, many kilos of hops, malt and barley to Israel to form the basis of a micro-brewery, or dozens of soccer balls to an orphanage.
Why are we trying to raise money?
It will be a great and unique adventure, but it won't be cheap. In the worst case, we’ll be looking at €3,000* each, if we don’t find any support from our friends & families and no sponsorship.
What we’d like to achieve with this fundraising page is to gather some financial support to help cover the purely charity-focused costs of the rally, i.e.
- the team registration fee of €1,333 that will be donated to this year's cause
- the costs of the cars (we'll hand them over to the organisers in Jordan, who will sell them and add the proceeds to the charity pot, so 3x €1,111 = €3,333
- and maybe, as a stretch goal, half of the ferry package, which would be €2,400 for the team (6 people * €800 * 50%)
These costs add up to €7,066, or £6,235. Since we’re also running a German funding page, we’ve split the fundraising target over the two sites, so our target here is £3,100 - but any part of that helps.
If you think this is a cool project and you'd like to help, we'll be very grateful for your support!
We'll update the page as we progress with planning and preparation.
Greetings from London, Zürich, Flörsheim and Iserlohn,
Lilly (Ellen), Fred, Dennis, Daniel, Hendrik and Katrin
If you'd like to learn more about the rally, here are some links:
Official website: https://www.europa-orient-rallye.de/en/
Official Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/402080559874308/
Youtube video from previous year from a team who was lucky enough to be backed by BMW: www.youtu.be/xR1JhByoexM
All pics used on this page are from previous years!
*Unfortunately, due to the situation in Syria, the rally has in recent years been forced to literally circumnavigate that area and put all cars on a very expensive charter ferry from Mersin in southern Turkey to Haifa, while the participants take a charter plane to Tel Aviv and pick up the cars 2 days later. This is a good solution, but also increases the fixed costs per person by €800.
Organizer
- Ellen Schmid
- London, UK
Donors
- Diana Tan
- Donated on May 29, 2018
Hope you had a successful rally. Look forward to hearing all about it x
- Berangere Bragard
- Donated on May 04, 2018
Go Lilly go! Have fun, be safe... and bring memories to share!!
Cars are ready!
Update posted by Ellen Schmid at 04:06 pmAfter some hard work last weekend, we present Team Tried & Rusted's fleet:FatCat, Pirate and Donkey!
The fleet is complete!
Update posted by Ellen Schmid at 02:09 pmMore news: The fleet is complete! Meet Esel (donkey, Dennis & Daniel), Fettekatze (fat cat, Fred & Lilly) and Pirat (pirate, duh, Hendrik & Katrin)!
Team complete!
Update posted by Ellen Schmid at 09:29 pmWe've got some news! We've completed the team now by adopting a couple, Hendrik and Katrin, whose own rally team had sadly fallen apart. They're from Iserlohn near Dortmund. Hendrik is an engineer and Sunday car mechanic, and Katrin runs her own company. She will rock the preparation spreadsheets and
Updates to follow!
Update posted by Ellen Schmid at 04:39 pmHello, Just a note to say that as planning and prep progress, we'll be posting updates here. Stay tuned for news on the cars, the route, the team and the tasks that the organisers tell us to complete!
Donors & Comments
- Anonymous
- Donated on Jun 01, 2018
Sponsorship from PI Germany
- Diana Tan
- Donated on May 29, 2018
Hope you had a successful rally. Look forward to hearing all about it x
- Berangere Bragard
- Donated on May 04, 2018
Go Lilly go! Have fun, be safe... and bring memories to share!!
- Anonymous
- Donated on May 02, 2018
- Doreen Beaman
- Donated on May 01, 2018
Best of luck Lilly
- Kelly Ho
- Donated on Apr 30, 2018
Best of luck on your adventure Ellen!! Drive fast...but be safe!
- Doreen Beaman
- Donated on Apr 26, 2018
Absolutely amazing! Please don't get lost!!
- Chris Tchen
- Donated on Apr 25, 2018
Best of luck and have fun
- Anna Glover
- Donated on Apr 19, 2018
Good luck and hope you enjoy every minute of it!
- Sarah Ferguson
- Donated on Apr 18, 2018
Good luck Lilly, you crazy human!
Sponsorship from PI Germany