Tiger 800 Motorcycle Forum Makes Significant Donation to Motorcycle Outreach Charity

130 Tiger 800 riders from 20 countries around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brazil, USA, Canada, UK & Europe have raised over £1500 for Motorcycle Outreach in just 12 weeks.

The group, all members of the Tiger 800 Forum, ran a photo competition of owners’ bikes in different parts of the world throughout last summer. The best photos (of over 200 submitted) were selected to produce a 2013 calendar and 200 copies were sold and distributed to members all over the world between November and January.

With over 26,000 hits on the forum the project proved to be highly popular among the international Triumph community. It also demonstrates that with just a little effort, motorcycle groups can create a sense of community across international boundaries , raise money for good causes and generate a positive public image for motorcycling.

[caption id="attachment_746" align="alignnone" width="680"] Pictured: MoR Directors Barbara Alam and Craig Carey Clinch. Ron Common from the Tiger 800 Forum and Sam Manicom the well-known adventure motorcycle traveller.[/caption]

A representative from the group formally presented the cheque to Craig Carey-Clinch, Director of Motorcycle Outreach on the Triumph stand at the MCN & Carole Nash bike show on Friday, 15th February 2013.

Sam Manicom, the well-known adventure motorcyclist and long-time supporter of Motorcycle Outreach, attended the presentation.

Motorcycle Outreach works with Health Ministries and local projects in developing countries to provide properly managed and maintained motorcycles for use by healthcare workers. This enables mobile teams to provide health care to people living in remote villages where road access is poor.

The money raised will be used to buy a new motorcycle for the charity's project in Indonesia where the mobile health care team supports over 50,000 people living in remote villages on the island of Flores.

Craig Carey-Clinch said: “Motorcycle Outreach is delighted with the donation from the Tiger 800 Forum. Among our other activities this year, we are hoping to replace the motorcycles that are used by heath care workers in Flores, Indonesia and the donation will really help towards this. The existing bikes have been in use for over ten years, which shows the value of managing vehicles used in aid projects properly. We are also extremely grateful to Triumph Motorcycles who hosted the presentation on their show stand.”

Dambusters 2013 to raise funds for Motorcycle Outreach

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2013 Plans

We are currently revising our strategy and plans for 2013, so that we can create more impact through broadening the number of projects in developing countries that MoR supports. Watch this space for further news!

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Motorcycle Outreach stand at Touratech Event

Thanks to all the Motorcycle Outreach supporters who showed up at our stand at the recent Touratech event.

Charity Ride from Tibet to Wales in aid of Motorcycle Outreach

[caption id="attachment_70" align="alignleft" width="258"] Mark and Nigel Crew[/caption]

Two brothers from South Wales, Mark and Nigel Crew, will set off on 21st April 2012 from Shanghai on a six-week adventure that will include riding a motorcycle and sidecar across the Himilayas, and a motorbike ride from Athens to the Caspian sea and back to Wales, They are raising money for the charity Motorcycle Outreach, which provides essential transport for healthcare workers in developing countries.

Nigel Crew explained

We have been planning this trip for 18 months. We will start from our youngest brother Jonathans home in Shanghai and then head to Lhasa. There we join a group of eight veteran motorcycles and sidecars and a film crew. We will then ride from Lhasa in Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal, including visiting Mount Everest base camp.

In the meantime our motorbikes are being transported to Athens. We will the collect them and head north east to cross Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan to reach Baku on the Caspian sea. Then we head all the way back to Wales, collecting money all the way.

Mark Crew added:

We have wanted to raise money for this charity (www.motorcycleoutreach.org) for some years. They do a lot of work in the remote areas of Indonesia, including delivering essential midwifery services. When Jonathan lived in Indonesia his wife Laura had a very difficult birth delivering the twins Emily and Felix. Fortunately she had access to good medical facilities, but in remote areas, without charities such as Motorcycle Outreach, the outcome could have been very different.

For more information visit www.bikezen.co.uk or follow the brothers on Twitter @NickC46, @badlydrawnk9 and @warmgazpacho

 

Motorcycles help reduce the maternal mortality in Indonesia

Health for All operates in NTT (Nusa Tengara Timur) which is the province which despite major improvement still shows the highest rate of death rate for mothers in Indonesia. The result of a National Health Survey in 2004 showed that in Indonesia as a whole the death rate of mothers reached 307 per 100,000 live births. NTT had a rate of 554 per 100,000 live births.
In 2007, the Health Demographics in Indonesia showed the national decrease reached 208 per 100,000 while in NTT 306 per 100,000 live births. Although the NTT rate had decreased it was still higher than other provinces.

By way of comparison the rate for the United States in 2005 is 11 per 100,000. Further information on this topic can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternal_death.

The infant mortality rate in 2004 in Indonesia was 52 per 1000 born alive while in NTT there was an improvement from 62 to 57 per 1000 born alive.

The result of Basic Health Research in 2007 showed that in NTT 77,1 % of delivery services were done at homes, 6,9 % in government hospitals, 6,5 % at public health or sub public health centres, 3,5 % at village maternity houses, 3,0 % in maternity private hospitals and 0,7 % at other places.
Healthworker in NTT with expectant mother
Basic health research in 2007 shows that 46,2 % delivery were done by trained traditional midwives, 36,5 % by midwives, 11,5 % by the member of the family, 4,1 % by doctors, 1,2 % by medical staff and 0,5 % by others.
From the facts above it is clear that many births take place with no health facilities.

A woman's mortality is caused by unskilled medical staff and unsterile equipments. A causal factor of infant and maternal mortalities is the minimum means of transportation. This applies both to the families and also to the medical staff who lack the means to reach remote areas.

[caption id="attachment_370" align="alignright" width="456"] Healthworker in NTT with expectant mother[/caption]

Ideally, during the pregnancy period, a mother should get a health check-up and service called Ante Natal Care (ANC). Ante Natal Care is given to an expectant mother during pregnancy according to the standard of midwifery service. This includes the measuring weight and height blood pressure, measuring fundus uteri height and checking tetanus imunisation status and toksoid tetanus, giving minimum go ferum blets during pregnancy, routine and specific laboratory check-up.There are typically four check-ups, minimum once in the first 3 month, once during the second three months and twice in the third three months.

Due to the condition of NTT and the island's hilly topography in general women do not get the standard health check-ups during pregnancy. One way the health service solves this problem is by providing motorcycles for the use of health staff. The motorcycle is chosen since this means of transportation is capable to reach the remote areas.
By: Mansetus Kalimantan, HfA Field Coordinator