Check out this little video we put together…Just to give you an idea of the kind of terrain we covered in 18 days!

On our first stop in Lusaka we said goodbye to Amanda, the sensible one. She had to get back to varsity and work. We made a few rules to keep safe on the trip, like no night driving. African roads are full of people, animals,crazy truck drivers and bicycles. Not 4 hours after her flight left we drove for about three hours in the dark to get to Chipata. It was the the scariest, most pot holed stretch of road we have ever encountered. Once we arrived in Chipata we then discussed making use of the 24 hr border and getting an extra day on Lake Malawi! Luckily we decided against it, but the quality of decision making and quality of living has definitely decreased since Amanda left! From dodgy roadside motels to Russian sausages from street vendors, we definitely miss the sensible female influence.

The sensible one is the one in the middle – just to be clear

The sensible one is the one on the left – just to be clear

The sensible one is on the right this time – just to be clear

Drake Fund Advisors

We have just got in another string of very generous donations. Check out the list below. We will make specific fuss of everyone as soon as we get back into less remote areas where the interweb streams around in more abundance. Thank you to everyone though who has been donating while we have been dragged by Kevin the rally car around places like Etosha National Park – tough…very tough out here.

We will do a tally soon and post a more current total for funds raised!

More Funds Just In

Check out what the kids at Abraham Kriel did as a send off for us! Another reminder of why we are Putting Foot!

Posters

The Kids at AK

Hand Paintings – too much fun

The real reason to Put Foot

So creative

Our goal was to raise R50 000 to help out Abraham Kriel but when the ball is coming off the bat so sweetly you might as well keep trying to hit 6′s! We are ridiculously excited to let you know that we have now officially got to our century (scored at record pace)! The talk is that it is a flat pitch and that we might be in for a while. Keep an eye out for more incoming runs…I mean funds.

Funds Raised

We have just received another R10 000 corporate donation which brings our fund raising total to:

Humbling

We have filled all of our stage sponsorship’s! We would like to send out a massive thank you to these four very generous companies that have donated R10,000 each to help out the kids at Abraham Kriel Children’s Home! It has been very humbling to see how quickly these companies jumped at the opportunity to get involved. We would never have imagined being at the R40,000 mark for our The Put Foot Rally initiative this early on in the game.

Novare Investments

Drake Fund Advisors

RealFin

KFP

We spent Saturday Morning with the kids at Abraham Kriel having some fun with paint. The kids got to make their mark on our overalls which will be our unofficial uniform for the Rally and will hopefully serve as a reminder of the real reason we are embarking on this challenge. I plan on wearing mine every day for 18 days…I may consider changing my underwear though.

Check out some of the awesome pics taken by Doug from Trigger Monkey:

Yummy! What!? I’d eat it

Pick a colour

Ok you can have 2 colours

One hand at a time!

OK let’s get these overalls dirty

The primary colours

Smurf?

That’s it…don’t be afraid to get dirty

The little ones

The bigger ones

The biggest ones and one Sharks supporter

The result…the awesome result!

More results

Go Team! Go Team AK!