Hallo all you out there. Sorry that we have not been in contact but we have not been able to get an internet connection as some of the locations have been very remote (have a look at www.karmaenduro.com to check out the route).
The journey is going really well and we have got some great video footage of schools along the way and some amazing photos of the landscape here.
We have had a couple of near misses with cars comming off the road and oil sumps being destroyed. But not us. We are driving very sensibly. Long, long drives. By the time we have finished we will have driven most of the length of the west coast of southern India - near;ly 2000 kilometres.
We have also adopted a primary school and already donated £50 to help them buy sports equipment for the children. We intent to donate every year to the school adn hope to form links between it and schools in the UK. It is in a tiny village in the southern indian mountains with a dirt road to serve it. The teachers were amazing bringing modern educational methods to a tiny, rural backwater. The pre-school children sang for us and we sang for them (we arent sure who actually benifited among the children but it was amazing to hear those thirteen little voices singing away like mad. In fact the teachers had to ask them to finish the song as it seemed to be an around song which had already been going on for five minutes!). We have lived rough in a packing case on the edge of a beach, and fought off scorpions (well one little one but real nasty looking) in a jungle hut.
All in all it is amazing and exciting and really brings home how unbelievably poor people are here and how little they have in the way of resources. It is a real pleasure and a privilege to be here and meet the children this is all about.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported us especially the amazing people of Earls Barton and colleagues in Alder Hey. We are still working hard out here. Keep the money coming in. We cant tell you how much the people here need it.
Roy and Andrew (the irish one)
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