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 Verfasst am: 06.06.2007 11:10:32 Titel: DRIVE AGAINST MALARIA |
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Wirklich eine Geschichte die unter die Haut geht- der mann fährt seit 8 Jahren um die Welt, übelstes Offroad mit nur einem Arm und einem Bein im Kampf gegen Malaria. Ich hab ein paar Folgen der TV- auf DVD- dagegen sind viele Trophys nur Kinderfasching.
http://www.malariafund.com/
David Robertson was born in England 1958. At the age of 18 lost his right arm and right leg in a motorcycle accident along the Acle Straight in Norfolk. After the accident he’s life became a major challenge, as he had to learn to walk, to write and drive a car.
At the age of 27 David left the UK to travel through Asia, Australasia and North America. He hitched hiked most of the way across the continents. A year after his return he started a new challenge, to drive from London to Cape Town, South Africa. Without back up or any communication systems let alone a navigation system. Crossing the Sahara desert was a challenge in itself. David drove across the centre of the Sahara with temperatures were so high, the thermometer exploded, as did a rear . Shortly after David got lost when the track he followed faded away into dust. He later learned a German vehicle lost in the same aria was found with all occupants dead.
The roads became worse in the Congo region David could only manage to drive 3 miles a day, as he was constantly stuck in mud and he had to repair bridges, buy fuel on the black market and deal with the corrupt police. The only food was bananas, pineapple and sardines. It took him five weeks to drive through Zaire. When he finally arrived in Mombassa, Kenya, David suffered from with high fever, shivers and severe headaches. He took the next flight to the UK where he was diagnosed with cerebral malaria. After 5 weeks he was back on the road to drive through Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and into South Africa.
In 1998 David Robertson started his toughest challenge; to fight for the children of Africa. David began to drive through all 53 African countries to highlight malaria and help bring world-wide attention to the biggest killer of young children.
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WORLD RECORD
David Robertson - Drive Against Malaria.Arriving in South Africa, David Robertson, a disabled Briton, is on course to smash the world record for the most countries driven through in a single vehicle in the cause of combating malaria. Robertson's arrival coincides with the African Malaria Conference in Durban organised by the Medical Research Council of South Africa and the Wellcome Trust on behalf of the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM).
In the spirit of Jules Verne, crusader, David Robertson, in his Land Rover left Rotterdam on 6th September with the ambition of gaining a place in the Guinness Book of Records with a record-breaking 300,000 mile drive that will take him across six continents over the next five years. With one leg and one arm missing the handicapped man is undertaking the endeavour to raise awareness and funds for malaria, a forgotten disease that still kills over 1 million people annually, most of them young children.
Driving the same 4x4 Land Rover, Robertson aims to smash the current record of 300,000 miles, (482,000 kilometers) through 125 countries created by Emil and liliana Schmidt who started their journey on 16 October 1984.The rules for the record state the driver must "travel through as many countries as possible with the same vehicle".
The campaign to raise awareness for the fight against malaria which began at the World Harbour Festival in Rotterdam, is being carried out in collaboration with Memisa Medicus Mundi, one of Europe's largest Non-Governmental organisations for Healthcare in Developing Countries and the Malaria Foundation International (MFI), a bottom-up organisation of malaria researchers and other professionals, with a main aim to raise global awareness and promote effective communication and global networking against malaria worldwide.
David Managed to hitch a lift to Rotterdam aboard HMS Fearless
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Malaria mostly kills childen under 5.So far David has driven through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovania, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldavia, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Scotland, Wales and England. Over the next few months his journey will take him through various countries in Southern Africa.
David will visit many areas affected by malaria, as well as hospitals and research institutes where Memisa-doctors and MFI affiliated-scientists work on malaria projects. On his trip he will distribute information being provided by the Malaria Foundation International and its partners engaged in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) initiative being coordinated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva. People in remote areas will be able to 'speak to the world about malaria' using David's state of the art communication's equipment.
The proceeds of the Drive Against Malaria will be donated to various malaria programmes agreed by David Robertson and his partners to help combat the disease. | |
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