Carlos and Sebastian collecting school supplies for children in Morocco.

Carlos Rebuco and Sébastien Poiteven have been preparing for months for the Moroccan Challenge, where they intend to help children in need.

Carlos Rebuco (left), Sébastien Poiteven and their Jeep Cherokee on board which they intend to cross the Moroccan desert in March 2024. ©D.C.

Combining sporting adventure with humanitarian work is the goal of Carlos Rebuco (from Taverny) and Sébastien Poiteven (from Frepillon). "We met at work twenty years ago. We worked in real estate. Since then we have been going through life together," explain these two forty-year-old men, both fathers of families, who decided to take part in the Moroccan Challenge aboard a Jeep Cherokee. This''A rally-raid to be held from March 22 to 30, 2024, in eastern Morocco, a region not affected by the earthquake.

Children's materials for Moroccan children

This race will end after covering 1,500km of trails in Merzouga, and it will be an opportunity for Carlos and Sebastien to deliver school materials collected from local companies and organizations through their association Claran. "We realized that we had a closet full of pens, pencils, notebooks, these promotional items that we don't use and that would end up in the trash," says Carlos. - I asked my company if we could recycle them. Often these are items specifically created for certain events and they can no longer be used. Companies don't want to''putting them in landfill: it's a matter of reputation'. The idea is to collect as many items as possible and deliver them to needy children in Moroccan villages. "We do the collection, storage and delivery," Carlos continues. - And we had an idea, prompted by Ann-Sophie Andreas' friend, rally rider Aisha Gazelle, to take advantage of the logistics of the rally rally. "We could just pack it all on a pallet and send it off, but there's always a doubt whether it will get to the right place, and there's also the adventure aspect of doing it ourselves. They are 4,000 euros short of

Carlos and Sébastien are in contact with an association in Merzouga dedicated to aid development.