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Organisation ... GLOBETRUCKER is
deliveries by truck for humanitarian purposes. After first aid supplies, education seems to represent the best way for long term progress in developing countries (and elsewhere in the world!). That’s why the project is mainly aimed to children and their education. It offers two main opportunities:
The goal is to promote a better image of road transportation and to support humanitarian causes in a concrete and precise manner. Getting a message across Nowadays
getting a message across is more and more difficult. It can no longer be
passed on with just a drum roll; something special is needed to grab
attention.
The Globetrucker vehicle grabs people’s attention wherever
it passes; in organised events with local partners, just driving along
roads far and near and especially by being talked and written about in the
media along the way and beyond. Wherever it is in the world, Globetrucker
can grab attention and deliver a message.
A large part of the space on the side of the vehicle
carries a positive message. On the first trip to Eastern Europe in 2002,
this space was used by the GRSP (Global Road Safety Partnership –
www.GRSProadsafety.org) a
partnership between the World Bank, the Red Cross and the private sector
for the promotion of road safety, a bane in developing countries. Today,
Globetrucker continues to draw attention to this horrendous problem, which
is an ever-growing cause of death and injury in all parts of the world and
especially in developing countries.
Without explicitly saying so, Globetrucker demonstrates
that especially in particularly troubled times it is possible to set up a
positive business venture based on solidarity between different peoples of
all creeds and races.
Transports Itinerary In 2003 a first trip was organised from Swizterland to Mongolia, being presumably the first truck to drive to Mongolia from Europe wih atransport load both ways In 2004 a 3dr trip was organised at the end of the Winter to Mongolia and Vladivostok (30'000kms round trip) and was followed by another trip in the Summer to the western part of Mongolia...(20'000 kms round trip with a nice 1000kms "no road section" and about 22 rural schools delivered). 2005 saw our dear and beloved truck accompanied by 3 other rigs, fully loaded with school material for Mongolia. Then another Mongolian trip in 2006 and a "double" with 2 trucks to Mongolia again in 2007, the year of the "big breakdown" which forced us to leave our Foden in Russia and "rescuing" it in 2008, while another Globetrucker, Gérard Voisin, transferred the load to Mongolia. In 2009 decided to retire our good and vailant Foden by organising a last trip to Mongolia and sell the vehicle there. No trips were organised in 2010, but Globetrucker and its partners supported a local Mongolian organisation that provided "replacement" cattle and animals to herders who had loast everything in the terrible zuud (extreeme winter). In 2012 Globetrucker offers the transport to Design Points North, a Canadian organisation that is bringing cooperation supplies to Attawapiskat, asn aboriginal community in northern Ontario taht declared a state of emergency in particular because of a lack of proper housing. A big part of the trip is covered on a seasonal ice road. Although no other actions are currently planned, Globetrucker will remain open to any project or request that would be matching both its capacity and philosophy.
Financement
In order to
finance its deliveries Globetrucker counts on:
See the partners
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