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Club member Roger Frank and his fellow Rotarian, John Taylor, took part in a humanitarian project in 2008.  They had to obtain a vehicle for under £100, spend no more than £15 on it and then drive it across the Sahara to Bamako, the capital of Mali (the worlds 4^th poorest country) then donate the vehicle to a charity.

A Transit Van was converted into a Pink Ice Cream Van then filled with half a ton of goods including pens, pencils, thermometers, footballs and sewing machines.

They left Cumbria on 11^th January and their journey, of 6707 miles, took them through many places including Spain, Gibraltar, Tangiers, The Atlas Mountains, Marrakech and Timbuktu.  The goods were distributed at various places on the way and they finally donated the Ice Cream Van when they arrived at journeys end at Mali.  The treated themselves to ice cream at notable landmarks on route!