Yamaha’s Morocco ride

Added on Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Carole Nash Editor | No Comments

Riders for Health and Yamaha joined their forces into organizing a rally raid, named ‘Ride for Life’ from Paris to Morocco.

The raid will help to support health workers in Africa by giving them means of tough and reliable transport to perform their invaluable work and reach isolated communities in Africa. A group of Dakar veterans, journalists and five selected participants from the general public will take a fleet of Super Ténéré bikes and supporting vehicles from Paris to Lisbon to Morocco. At the end of the trip, Yamaha and its network of partners will donate to Riders for Health five Super Ténérés and essential replacement parts, which will ensures 3 years of perfect operation.

Riders for Health has chosen to operate these five Super Ténérés in the Eastern province of Zambia. These motorcycles will help to improve the delivery of health care in rural communities by ensuring the efficient detection and diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. To date Riders for Health have mobilized five couriers who will help to deliver blood samples by motorcycle. In 2010, Riders will be mobilising another five professional sample couriers as well as 15 health workers who will provide primary health care to the local population.

Ride for Life starts in Paris, on May 4th 2010 where Yamaha Dakar legends will kick off the ride. They’ll be taking the Super Ténérés as far as Lisbon, Portugal passing by Toulouse and Madrid. From Lisbon on it’s up to some privileged customers to take over. Together with Helder Rodriguez - 4th in the 2010
Dakar Rally - they will be riding from the Portuguese capital down to the North African coast.

The raid will be going through the extraordinary, craggy beauty of the Atlas Mountains to the final destination: the exotic city of Marrakech. It’s here that on May 17th Yamaha will donate these 5 Super Ténéré bikes to the humanitarian organization Riders for Health.

“Yamaha is proud to support the invaluable work performed by Riders for Health. We hope our Super Ténéré bikes can contribute to make a difference to many hundreds of people who are currently without access to the medication they need to stay healthy,” said Arno Sunnotel, Yamaha Motor Europe’s Division Manager.

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