First Overland 2010 has a 3 part plan
The first part of our plan is obvious, we are to follow in the 1955 expeditions footsteps.
The second part of of plan will span the vast area between Iran and Thailand. We will be distributing a number of specially designed glasses for the third world. These glasses have been specially designed with retractable lenses. This means they can be adjusted to suit each individuals needs and the best part is that they can be adjusted by the user with no need of a pediatrician. We will be carrying out research for Professor Silver, the glasses inventor, to see how viable these glasses are in Asia and to see how people take to them. www.vdw.ox.ac.uk
The third part of our plan involves the Futuresence charity. www.futuresence.co.uk/ourCharity.aspx
We have merged our expedition in with the Future Sence foundation so that whislt we are in India, the country we intend to carry out a 6 week study into the glasses, we will be able to work under an already established circle of people offering help, the Future Sence charity has a basecamp in the North East. We are looking at basing this study in the North East as its a part of India often forgotten about and we feel needs some assistance. Merging our expedition with the foundation has enabled us to gain Charitable Status and it also means that any donations we recieve, fifty percent will go directly to the foundation enabling them to futher their projects such like the one in India.
We have set up a donation page where people can pledge money to help us achieve our goals. www.justgiving.com/firstoverland2010
The OxCam First Overland 2010 Team
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The Original Map
About Me
- Through The Looking Glasses
- It all began with the phrase 'it's impossible' - and what could be a better invitation for a challenge? On the 1st September 2010 we, the First Overland 2010 Team will depart from London and make our way across the biggest stretch of land on Earth to Singapore. A journey said by many to now be 'impossible' but will are about to attempt to prove this wrong. We will be the first ever team to complete a fully faithful retrace in two replica cars. So, with the help of Oxford and Cambridge universities and uk and international contacts and of course Tata, we will shortly be setting out from Dover in two 1950's Land Rovers enroute to such places like, Italy, Syria, Iran, India and Thailand, experiancing how life aka the world and its enhabitance has changed in fifty-five years and documenting what we for future referance.
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