ROMANIANS AT MONGOL RALLY Raul Crisan embarks on trek to Mongolia to help Africa's orphaned children

Raul Crisan has been living in Zaragoza, Spain for less than four years, where he works in online marketing; in the second part of July, he will embark on a trek that will take him to the Mongol Rally, a charity rally seeking to raise funds this year for the British environmental group CoolEarth.

Photo credit: (c) www.lavacaloca.es

Raul Crisan said he thought about taking part in the 10th edition of the rally as early as last year, when he followed the adventures of a Romanian team on social networks. "For adventure, because I love travelling, and because it's the perfect opportunity to see almost everything in Europe and a good part of Asia," the Romanian explains why he rushed to pay the registration tax as early as January. "I set up the team," he told AGERPRES, "and I decided to leave from here, as I have been living in Spain for almost four years."

Those who reach the finish line must donate 500 British pounds to CoolEarth and other 500 British pounds to another charity organization of their choice. Raul Crisan and his Spanish colleague in this adventure decided they will embark on this trek not only for the Association helping people with hemophilia in Aragon, but also to help 150 orphaned children in Kenya, providing them with milk powder and buying a cow for them (hence the name of their team, La Vaca Loca — www.lavacaloca.es). Thus, the Kenyan children might benefit by 62 litres of milk each day.

Besides the starting points in London (July 20) and Prague (July 22), and the finish line in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, few things are a certainty, both for the organizers and the participants, because anything can happen along the road. This year, Mongol Rally celebrates "a decade of lack of caution" and the...