Greensteds students participated in the Rhino Charge for the first time in 2010. This high profile motor event which raises more than any other single event for environmental causes in the world needs people to steward it – and that was Greensteds’ role.
Travelling to the site of the competition at Magadi, setting up camp and a guard post were the culmination of a year’s work of fund-raising and planning. The logistics of getting to the competition site, feeding themselves and providing support for up to sixty rally cars is no mean feat.

Once there the biggest challenge, in temperatures of 40˚ was simply keeping cool. With water a treacherous one hour journey away lessons in frugality were learned.                    

The responsibilities of the guard post included logging vehicles as they checked-in, monitoring teams to ensure they kept to the rules and being on hand for any emergencies. In addition students provided encouragement, food, drink and cooling towels for teams who had traveled cross-country in the blistering terrain.

                                                                                                            Team 16 from the USA pose with Greensteds after finishing

Greensteds is proud to have been part of this world-famous event and of the tireless energy that the students displayed throughout a very long hot day. In their small way as an essential cog in the Rhino Charge machine the Greensteds contingent helped to raise a staggering $800,000.

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