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Allgäu-Orient Rally · 2020/2021

Judo goes Orient 2021

The rally for charitable aid

Second edition — and this time off their own bat: with the official rally postponed by the pandemic, Team #85 set off independently in May 2021. Over three and a half weeks and more than 7,000 kilometres, three scrapyard cars carried around three tonnes of aid to children's homes in Romania and Bulgaria — no motorways, all for a good cause.

One of the three BMW 530d Touring rally cars from 2020/2021

At a glance

  • ≈ 7,000 km Distance
  • 11 Countries
  • 3 t Aid delivered
  • ≈ €32,000 Donations raised

The route

Wohlen CH · Start / Finish Wien AT · Waypoint Piatra Neamț RO · Aid project Tryavna BG · Aid project Nea Moudania GR · Waypoint Bllice AL · Aid project Sarajevo BA · Waypoint Map: Natural Earth
Start / Finish Aid project Waypoint
A big Balkan loop from Wohlen: via Austria and Hungary to the children's homes in Romania (Piatra Neamț) and Bulgaria (Tryavna), down to the Aegean and on to the school project in Albania — then home through Montenegro and Bosnia.

The idea

Adventure with a purpose: travel as far as possible, as cheaply as possible, and do as much good as possible. Team #85 from Wohlen trains judo together — and poured that energy into a humanitarian rally towards the Orient, raising funds for children in Romania and Bulgaria before, during and after the trip.

The cars

Three identical BMW 530d Touring (E39) estates, all around 20 years old with 230,000–300,000 km on the clock, each rescued from the scrapyard for about a thousand francs. Named (Gloria, Selma, Alexa) and fitted with three trailers (two horse trailers and a cargo transporter) for the heavy load.

The aid projects

Aid was handed out all along the route: about two tonnes of supplies and €22,000 to the orphanage in Piatra Neamț (Romania, partner WKMS), roughly one tonne and €11,000 to the SOS Children's Village in Tryavna (Bulgaria), schoolbags and toys to the primary school in Bllice (Albania), and an emergency generator for a family in Tuzla (Bosnia) — over €30,000 and three tonnes of goods in total.

The rally film

Sponsors & supporters

The 2021 rally would not have been possible without these companies and people — thank you!

Sultan

  • Architekturbüro Josef Scherer, Wohlen
  • STV Besenbüren
  • Spritzwerk Hallauer, Tägerig
  • Sportgarage Spuler, Holderbank
  • Freimaurerloge Aarau
  • Knecht Holzwerkstoffe, Baden-Dättwil

Emir

  • Andalusia, Mellingen
  • Koch AG – Architektur, Holzbau, Immobilien, Büttikon
  • WissmannWerbung, Embrach
  • DJ Prism
  • De Masi AG Bauunternehmen, Wohlen
  • Strebel Maschinen AG, Waldhäusern
  • Raum und Yoga
  • finesolutions – Zoll ohne Grenzen

Scheich

  • CM Autopark
  • Bächer Werbetechnik
  • eifach, Wohlen
  • Richnerstutz, Wohlen
  • Wagner – Schriften & Mehr, Wohlen
  • Mumenthaler Transporte
  • Kidz Pony Club
  • Sola Switzerland AG
  • kabelsalat support
  • bsi
  • Schreinerei & Küchenbau Berger, Boswil
  • freytag & berndt
  • ABENA – Schaumstoffe
  • Ballon-Müller AG

Bedouins — individual supporters

Andreas Schmid, Tobias Figilister, Lukas Schmid, David Notter, Frieda M. Steinruck, Max Suter, Christian Köck, Manuela Scherer, Patrick Wenger, Reto & Sylvia Bachmann, Leo Hofer, Eva & Christian Mumenthaler, Raoul & Christine Thiébaud, Anna Berger, Dorothea Oldani, Bernadette Jurt, Martha Hopp Schröder, René & Claudia Siegrist, Marc Z., Jogi Kuenstner, H. Hofstetter, Beatrix Hankh, Nicole Roos, Marie-Louise Hunkeler, Bernadette Hunkeler, Kurt Heimberg, Annelies & Rolf Koch, Claudia & Toni Jorge, Häusler, Samuel Plüss, Karol Swiderski, Shane Hauri

The story continues

Judo goes Orient became Team85. Same crew, same spirit — now heading for the Baltic Sea Circle.

See the current rally → See the earlier 2016 rally →