MicraGolia - Driving the Mongol Rally

Team Micragolia

Nettie Kelly and Kim Wetherall, members of Richmond Canoe Club, are hanging up their racing vests for the Summer and exchanging their intensive tea drinking fuelled training sessions for some serious adventure, whilst raising as much money as possible for two hugely worthwhile charities: Mercy Corps and Hope and Homes for Children.

The Challenge
Travel a third of the way around the earth, from Hyde Park, London to Ulan Bator, Mongolia. 10,000 miles, 7 mountain ranges, 2 deserts , roads ranging from bad to non-existent, all in a car that has an engine with no more than 1 litre of power.

Our adventure starts on July 21st 2007 from Hyde Park. We will be one of two hundred teams starting this years rally, our vehicle of choice — a 998cc Nissan Micra, kindly donated by Roxanne Dunn.

We Need Your Help

In order to compete in The Mongol Rally, we need to raise a minimum of £1000 for our chosen charities. In addition to this we need to find team sponsors and fundraise enough money to enable us to complete our challenge.

Last year the Mongol Rally raised over £200,000 for charity, this year they are hoping to top that and raise 1/4million pounds.

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