August 2, 2006
Incoming Bioengineering graduate student Javad Golji is a participant in this year’s Mongol Rally, an 8,000-mile charity race from London to Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia.
Golji, part of a four-person team calling themselves the Technomads, will travel in a 1995 Renault 19 hatchback with about 120,000 kilometers (74,564 miles) on the odometer. Race rules require participants to drive an underpowered, preferably ridiculous, vehicle that’s completely unsuited for the trip. Race organizers said the point of the trip is for participants to have an adventure, not to squire themselves around in sturdy SUVs.
The money they raise will go to Mercy Corps, which helps the poor in rural Mongolia and Send a Cow, which provides livestock to African farmers.
Read the full story at CNN.com .