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Examples of how far your donation money can go

  • $2.00 will buy one tree sapling to help Mongolian herders prevent overgrazing their pastures
  • $8.00 will allow one unemployed or low income person to attend a business skills training course
  • $12.60 will pay for one person to attend practical employment training for 8 days to learn a new trade, from carpet weaving to making horse riding accessories
  • $33 will enable an unemployed woman to attend a 30 day training course on vegetable growing
  • $110 will provide text books for pupils in five rural schools
  • $165 will provide life changing business training for a group of 20 people
  • $315 will repair and equip a training room to teach skills to people who have little or no income
  • $412 will buy tools to help poor families provide an income for their families, including sewing machines and shoe mending equipment
  • $500 will pay for a school library to be fully stocked with books


If interested in donating directly to the charities please contact us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

We've made it!!
Total Travel Time: 51 Days
Total Distance shown by Odometer: 9642 miles


The Mongol Rally is a UK-to-Mongolia, no back-up, no support, no set route adventure for charity - involving 15 countries and 10,000 miles' worth of mountains, deserts, bad roads, no roads, bandits, and various other pickles in comically unsuitable 1-litre cars.


Freedom costs a buck-oh-five. But we've heard that in Mongolia $1.05 also gets you a 3-story yurt mansion on the shores of Ögii Lake.

So off we go in our Fiat Panda. And since terrorism is officially over, Team America is now all about charity and liberation! Viva la Facebook!

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Facts about Mongolia

  • 19th largest and the most sparsely populated independent country in the world
  • 2.9 million people
  • 30% of the population are nomadic or semi-nomadic
  • predominant religion is Tibetan Buddhism
  • 20% of the population live on less than US$1.25 per day
  • economy is centered on agriculture and mining(like copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold)

Fun Facts about 2009 Rally

  • Number of Teams started: 359
  • Number of Teams to Finish: 281 (78%)
  • Number of Teams to Retire: 65 (18%)
  • Number of Teams M.I.A.: 13 (4%)
  • Number of Teams Retired before Mongolia (or M.I.A): 34 (9% – 44% all retirees)
  • Number of Teams Retired in Mongolia: 44 (12% – 56% all retirees)
  • Number of cars donated to AFD: 278 (80%)
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