Press Release Summary = A professional gambler, a TV Editor and a physics teacher decide to drive 3000 miles in a rickshaw across India even though they\'ve never met each other!
Press Release Body = What do you get if you put an English professional gambler, a Kiwi television editor and a Vietnamese physics teacher together in a rickshaw for three weeks in India? Well, we\'re about to find out…
Andy Hoang, Ivan Phillips and Kiwi Nick Reid, have never met one another. A posting on an online noticeboard was the start of what we hope will become a beautiful friendship. The three make up \'The Dosa Boys\', just one of thirty teams entered in the infamous Rickshaw Run.
This Christmas holiday The Dosa Boys and their competitors will be driving a three wheeled motorized rickshaw with a top speed of 20 miles an hour. They will traverse 3000 miles of highways, desert sands, jungles, bustling cities, mountains, villages, mud tracks and the tropical heat of the Indian subcontinent in the first long distance rickshaw race ever held, and all of this in a vehicle with a top speed of 30mph!
The race was created to raise money for Mercy Corps, whose work alleviates poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. From Cochin in the south to Darjeeling in the north east, the teams have 19 days to complete the route.
Woolwich born Andy Hoang is keen to share his adventures along the way, and you can keep up to date with the team\'s progress before, during and after the race at http://dosaboys.blogspot.com/ and here on Simon Bull’s blog. Andy is excited and understandably apprehensive about his team mates. Three weeks in a small vehicle just big enough to fit three people in let alone their luggage through the Indian wilderness sounds like Big Brother on 3 wheels.
\'Between us I think we’ve got about half an hours experience of repairing vehicles. Mainly BMX bikes.’ Says Andy. “But when you look a the team, it’s quite a good combination I reckon – in fact we couldn\'t have planned it better – that is, if we\'d done any planning at all.\'
All three will be arriving in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Boxing Day to begin pimping their rickshaw before the 28 December 2006 start for what will be a hilarious nineteen days. The trio are seeking sponsors and contributors to help raise their target of £1000 for Mercy Corps. To contribute to The Dosa Boys and help raise money for Mercy Corps, please go to http://www.justgiving.com/thedosaboys/
To find out more about The Rickshaw Run visit http://www.rickshawrun.com
Web Site = http://www.justgiving.com/thedosaboys
Contact Details = Please direct any media or sponsorship enquiries to Andy Hoang at andrew@hoang.co.uk or call +44 7929 917614
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