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Information:
 The
Dresden Banjul Organisation (DBO) is a Gambian registered
NGO (14th December 2007 - No. A119) and the fundraising charity
arm for the car rally called the 'Dresden-Dakar-Banjul Challenge'
from Germany to the Gambia in order to distribute goods and
raise funds for schools, health, relief work, and farming.
Its main aim is not about who can get to be the winner of
the race but about assisting the people of this small West
African country.
Private teams in small groups travel in trucks, saloons, and
4WD vehicles over a 7,000 km route from Germany through France,
Spain then through the Sahara Desert countries of Morocco,
Mauritania and onto Dakar in Senegal and terminating in The
Gambia. Drivers are expected to manage an average for
stages of 800km per day excluding border crossings, rests
and waiting times.
All the lorries and other vehicles are filled with products
that are urgently required with a particular emphasis on teaching
books, desks, chairs, medical monitoring & diagnostic
equipment and ambulances.
Money is raised by
the DBO is from the eventual auction of vehicles that have
taken part in the rally as well as private individual donations
such as from the Association for Kehlitz Steffen.
Beneficiaries:
• Blue Kitchen in Fajara - Operation Feed the People
• Lambai, Ceesay, Brusubi & Kobisala nursery
schools
• Kundembo Health Post Gunjur
• Sukuta Heath Centre
• Sukuta Women's Garden
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