Around the world in a Ford Model T

Supporting the work of SOS Children’s Villages around the world

Objective: In the summer of 2012, Dirk Regter and his wife Trudy will embark on a journey around the world in a 1915 Ford Model T. Thetrip will take them through all the continents of the world and will cover over 85,000 kilometres. They will drive right through Africa, along the west coast of South America, through Mexico, the United States and Canada, via India, China, Mongolia, Siberia and Russia, returning to the Netherlands at the end of 2014. It promises to be a wonderful journey for a worthy cause. During this unique round-the-world trip, projects run by the international development organisation for children SOS Children’s Villages will be visited in numerous countries and support will be given! By means of a worldwide sponsorship campaign, Trudy and Dirk will make sure that children having to fend for themselves are given a loving family once again. Website: In order to keep you updated on the preparations for this journey and the adventures during the trip, work is currently underway on the further construction of the website: TFordworldtour.org Dirk is not embarking on this journey completely unprepared. In 2007, he drove the same Model T on a sponsored journey from Peking to Paris. That trip, covering more than 13,000 kilometres, took him through China, Mongolia, Russia and the Baltic states to Paris, and raised around €140,000 in sponsorship funds. This money was used in the construction of a school in eastern Mongolia and a centre for disabled children in western Mongolia. The experience that Dirk gained during that journey and the inspiration to help build a better future for disadvantaged children formed the motivation to undertake this new trip around the world. See also: Would you like to support this wonderful initiative? If you support the aims of this trip and want to help orphan children in developing countries enjoy a better future, you are warmly invited to transfer your donation to the RaboBank account number: 1503.26.548 (IBAN: NL18 RABO 0150 3265 48, BIC: RABONL2U), quoting “TFordWorldtour”. Contact: If you would like further information about this project, please contact Dirk Regter. Tel.: +31 (0)6-20 60 24 40 E-mail: dirk@regter.com If you would like further information about the work of SOS Children’s Villages, please visit the website: www.sos-childrensvillages.org