Johannesburg - Randgold Resources’ CEO Mark Bristow has finished a motorbike trip around Africa, which so far has seen him and his team raise at least $2.4 million for the poor.
The motorbike safari went from east to west across mid-Africa.
Bristow and the team covered more than 8 000 kilometres over 28 days from Mombasa to Muanda, through dense equatorial jungle.
Speaking from Kinshasa last weekend, he said his trip had proved to be the most challenging of the four trans-Africa motorbike rides for charity he has undertaken.
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The previous routes entailed a trip from Cape Town to Cairo in 2009, Bagshot to Abidjan in 2012 and Abidjan to Cape Town in 2014.
Bristow arrived in Luanda on Tuesday, marking the end of the trip. The CEO will now continue to allocate funds.
Donations have been made across the DRC to orphanages and institutions in the most remote areas the bikers have travelled.
Cabinet ministers and members of parliament joined the riders and partners at an event to celebrate the achievement and to make further donations to organisations in Kinshasa.
Dubbed Safari Kwa Afrika Bora – Swahili for Riding for a Better Africa – the journey’s aim was to raise $3 million for some of the continent’s most needy people, notably the women and children deprived of a decent life by strife and poverty.
The money goes to Nos Vies en Partage (French for Sharing Prosperity), the independent charitable foundation established by Randgold in 2014.
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