Long Way Down
Page 33
Clothing
Powerstretch Gloves (8), Haglofs Barrier Jacket Large (6), Haglofs Barrier Jacket (XL) (2), Anadir Sweater (XL) (2), Anadir Sweater (L) (6), Fram Pants (L) (6), Fram Pants (XL) (2), Touratech Haglofs Fleece jackets (8), Belstaff customized jackets (2), Belstaff customized trousers (2), LWD beanies (8), Rain jackets (8), LWD Personalised T-shirts (60), Underwear, Socks, Shorts, Hiking boots, KSB Sport Sandals, Jeans, Cotton shirts, UNICEF LWD Buffs, LWD logo hats (8), BMW Rallye2 Suit (1), Zip-off cargo pants.
Video/Photography equipment
Sony Z1 Camcorder (1), Sony HVR-V1e HDV video camera (3), Sony HRV-A1e HDV Video camera (3), Sony HDR-HC7E handycam (2), Sony HC96 Dv Cameras (6), Sony V1e hard drive (1), Sony MDRV150 headphones (1), V1e camera batteries (7), A1e battery charger – AC5Q950 (4), A1e battery charger (6), A1e batteries (12), Sennheisser boom mic and cable (1), V1e battery charger (4), Sennheisser EK100 radio mic (transmitter & reciever)set (2), Sony top mic (1), Swit S-2000 light (4), Audio splitter cable (1), Rode NTG-1 external mics with softie (3), Travel adaptor plug (8), Century Optics Wide Angle lens (1), Leica Dlux 3 digital camera (6), Velbon tripod (1), Sennheisser headphones (1), Sennheisser boom mic + cable (1), Hyperlight and charger (1), Sony top mic (1), Audio splitter cable (1), RSA1U-A1 raincovers (1), DV-970L lithium battery (3), Uniross AA/AAA battery charger + mains lead (1), Uniross AA rechargable batteries (16), Uniross AAA rechargable batteries (8), Canon DSR 450 zoom lens (1), RSPD170 raincovers (1), Sony toplight (3), Travel plug (10), Century Optics Wide Angle lens (1), Canon 30D SLR camera (1), Canon speedlight 430EX (1), RSA1U-A1 raincovers (1), Century Optics Wide Angle lens (1), Nikon SLR D200 (1), Plaubell Makina 670 stills camera (1), RSA1U-A1 raincovers (1), 1500GB raid 5 storage device with foam protection (2), Additional set of raid 5 drives and caddies (4), Pelicase for 10 drives case-1520 (2), PC PCI-X SATA card for AVID (1), PCMCIA SATA adaptor for PC Laptop (3), Panasonic Toughbook 51 Core Duo 1.66Ghz 4Gb Ram 100Gb HD-laptops (3), Additional batteries for Panasonic Toughbook (3), Additional power supply to Toughbook (2), Pelicase for toughbook and HDV deck (3), AVID express pro software (1), Sony HVR-M15 deck (3), Sony VCLHG0862K (0.8x Wide Conversion Lens for V1) (1), Sony HVR-DR60 Hard Disk Recorder (60GB) (1), Tripod GITZO Traveller (G0041587) MANFROTTO (701 RC2) (2), Sony Charger AC-SQ950 with car charger (for two 7.2V Lithium M batteries) (1), Hawk-Woods DV-MC2 Charger (for two 7.2 Lithim L batteries) (1), Hawk Woods DV970L DV link battery (15), Hawk Woods DV-RH1 (Sennheiser radio-mic holder) (3), Hawk Woods DV-CA12 Step-Up Adaptor (5), Sony Diversity URX-P1 receiver, +UTX-B1 transmitter (3), Sennheiser SK100Tx transmitter + EK100Rx receiver (2), Sankon tie mic (for Sennheiser radio mics) (6), Sankon tie mic (for radio mics) (4), Audio Technica tie mic (for radio mics) (4), Sony Gun Zoom Microphone ECM-HGZ1 (1), Rode directional mic NTG-1 + Rycote Softy (2), Headphone Sennheiser HD25SP (1), Sony AA+AAA charger (1), Uniross Sprint AA+AAA charger (1), Rechargable AA batteries (20), Rechargable AAA batteries (12), Surge Protection Multiple power socket (2), Leica HL-005 Batteries for Leica camera (12), Sonic helmet cameras and mics (6).
So what next?
When we got off our bikes in Cape Town at the end of Long Way Down, people started to ask ‘So what next?’, ‘Will there be a Long Way Up?’, ‘Any more journeys planned?’. Well, we can now give an answer. There’s definitely one more journey taking place and we’re fully committed to make it happen. What is it? It’s our journey to try and raise as much money as we can for UNICEF and children affected by HIV, poverty and conflict all over Africa. We’re calling this journey ‘The Long Way to Go’ because whilst UNICEF is reaching millions of children across the continent already, we want to go all the way to help them in their mission to reach every single child, and that’s no mean feat.
Having travelled across Africa on Long Way Down, it’s been a privilege for us to work with UNICEF, meet children and hear first-hand about their lives. A lot of people ask us, ‘Doesn’t it get depressing hearing about these terrible things and seeing children living in difficult situations?’ But the truth is, strangely, it doesn’t. Because the children we have met on our travels are incredibly brave. They have hope. They have UNICEF and its partners, taking action to make their lives better. We’ve seen how it works with our own eyes: the education and opportunities that UNICEF gives children who have grown up knowing nothing but war, the simple miracle of preventing babies being born with HIV, the incredible care and love that UNICEF gives to children orphaned by AIDS. They have made a long lasting, incredible impression on us.
Crossing Africa we realised the enormity of what UNICEF has set out to do. Without any funding from the UN, they need money urgently to reach every child. So please join us on this new journey. You don’t even need a bike. Just dig deep in your pockets and give something to UNICEF – however much it is – to help make the world a better place for every child. We’ve seen what a difference it can make.
UNICEF is the leading children’s organisation, reaching children in more than 190 countries around the world. We work with families, local communities, partner organisations and governments to help every child realise their full potential. We support children by providing health care, nutrition and education. We protect children affected by crisis including war, natural disasters and HIV.
UNICEF is not funded by the UN. Instead we rely on voluntary donations to fund our work for children worldwide. We need help from people like you in order to continue supporting and protecting children from the effects of poverty, conflict and disasters. Even the smallest donations can make a huge difference to a child who has nothing.
To make a donation or to learn more about UNICEF’s work, you can call 1-800-4UNICEF or visit www.unicefusa.org.
Checks and money orders should be made payable to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and sent to:
U.S. Fund for UNICEF
125 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
To find out more about Ewan and Charley’s UNICEF visits, please go to www.unicef.org.uk/longwaydown.
Children’s Hospice Association Scotland, CHAS is a Scottish charity committed to providing hospice services for children with life limiting conditions and their families. Sadly, hundreds of Scottish families are facing the fact that their child will not live to be an adult.
CHAS runs the only children’s hospices in Scotland, Rachel House in Kinross and Robin House in Balloch, as well as an at home service called Rachel House at Home for families in the Highlands. CHAS provides respite care, practical help and emotional support to the whole family, from the day they are referred until the death of their child and beyond.
These services are free of charge to families but it costs CHAS £5 million each year to run Rachel House, Robin House and the Rachel House at Home service.
If you would like any more information about CHAS, please visit our website at www.chas.org.uk or contact us at the address and telephone number shown below.
CHAS
Canal Court
42 Craiglockhart Avenue
Edinburgh
EH14 1LT
Tel: 0131 444 1900
Scottish charity number SC019724
Motorcycles saving lives
10.8 million people are now receiving regular healthcare, sometimes for the first time in their lives.
Billions of dollars are spent each year to produce drugs and vaccines to prevent men, women and children dying needlessly from easily preventable and curable diseases. But they fail to reach the people who so desperately need them. This isolation from health care resources is due to the fact that the population of Africa live far from towns and major centres, the distances are vast and the best roads are little better than dirt-tracks. Even when vehicles are available, they quickly break down if no one has the expertise or resources to maintain them.
So Riders for Health addresses that vital missing link. We make sure, with our highly trained local teams, that motorcycles and other vehicles used in the delivery of health care withstand the harsh conditions and keep runni
ng day in, day out. We work in Zimbabwe, the Gambia, Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho, training health care workers in safe riding and preventative vehicle maintenance.
Charley and Ewan’s experiences on the ride gave them a first hand understanding of the distances and difficulties involved in riding in Africa. These are the same difficulties that the health care workers face every day.
To find out more about the work of Riders for Health or to find out about how to make a donation, please visit www.riders.org.
Acknowledgements
Olivia, Doone, Kinvara and the whole Boorman clan
Eve, Clara, Esther, Jamyan and our family
David Alexanian and Russ Malkin.
Lisa Benton, Sarah Blackett, Ollie Blackwell, Julian Broad, Kelly Bushell, Mike Clark-Hall, Dave Depares, Joanna Ford, Jim Foster, Jeff Gulvin, Daryl Higgins, Corin Holmes, Dai Jones, Robert Kirby, Asia Mackay-Trotter, Liz Mercer, Claudio von Planta, Andy Ryder, Robin Shek, Jimmy Simak and Lucy Trujillo.
Antonia Hodgson, Caroline Hogg, Marie Hrynczak, David Kent, Tamsin Kitson, Alison Lindsay, Duncan Spilling and everyone at Little, Brown Book Group.
Special thanks to:
Arai: Wendy Hearn
AST: Chris Wood and Tracey Harris
Belstaff: Manuele Malenotti and Michele Malenotti
BMW: Steve Bellars, Pieter De Waal, Lachlan Harris, Tony Jakeman, Juergen Korzer
Buff: Julian Peppit, Ignasi Rojas
Cafédirect: Sylvie Barr
Castle of Mey: Jeremy Mainwaring Burton, James Murray, Jackie Phillipson
Eurotunnel: John Keefe
Explore: Paul Bondsfield, Peter Eshelby, Ashley Toft
MacTools: Adrian O’Nion
Media Insurance: Boyd Harvey
Michelin: Paul Cordle
Nissan: John Parslow, Bob Neville at RJN, Russell Joyce at Motormode
Nokia: Amooti Binaisa, Jenny Williams
Sonic: David Bryan, Wayne Schreier, Liam Thornton
Stanford maps
Starwood: Amalie Craig, Rob Kucera, Robert Scott
Total: Iain Cracknell
Touratech: Herbert Schwarz
Virgin Atlantic: Richard Branson, Paul Charles, Bill Gosbee
Visit Scotland: Karin Finlay, Liz Ware
CHAS: everyone at Rachel House and Robin House, and Barbara Osbourne Riders for Health: Andrea Coleman, Barry Coleman, Jennie Goodman UNICEF: Sarah Epstein, Alison Tilbe, Wendy Zych
All stills photos by Julian Broad taken on Canon digital cameras.