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„With the Slippers Through the Desert – On the Top!” Raid Is on the Last Tour Bucharest, September 1st 2006 – With a deep patriotic feeling and a high adventure spirit we anounce you that this year’s edition of the humanitarian raid With the Slippers Through the Desert is on the verge of taking off. The raid’s team was presented in Hotel Sofitel’s “Espace Darclee” Room in order to launch this humanitarian action, occasion in which the present journalists could see the wonderful view of the vehicles that will generously carry us on the African continent. On the occasion of the Francophonny Summit in Bucharest, this year’s raid is the result of a series of initiatives that pursuits – however ambitious and official might appear this thing – the amplification of the ties/ connections between South-East Europe and West Africa, to where we are heading. “With the Slippers Through the Desert – On the Top!” Raid will make its start towards Africa on the 24th of September 2006, under the wing of the Prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu together with His Excellency, President Abdou Diouf, General Secretary of the International Francophonny Organization. The raid’s organizers are – hopefully, not a secret for anyone – “With the Slippers Through the Desert” Foundation and “ Academia Catavencu”. The raid proposes to initiate an east-north-south cooperation project in the educational field and the French-Romanian expertise in the implementation of Documentation and Information Centres in the Senegal’s schools. At the arrival in Dakar there will be Romanian-French-Senegalese trades regarding education and the new technologies. This year’s sponsors are: Romtelecom, Orange, Afton Chemical, UTI, Delta Telecom, Veolia Water, Biborteni, Murfatlar, Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the International Francophonny Organization, to which we thank again for their willing and we warmly shake their hand. In all the editions of the “Slippers” raid the cars that participated were donated in Senegal, to the Protected Education Agency inside the Ministry of Justice, and also in Mali. This way, Senegal’s Protected Education Agency improved its collection with 28 Romanian cars, donated in the five previous editions of the “Slippers” raid, which represent over 85 percent of their total of cars. And here we are, however unbelievable it might seam to the sceptics, at the 6th edition of the raid. The other five are: in 1999 “With the Slippers Through the Desert”; in 2000 “With the Slippers Through the Desert – Returns”; in 2001 “With the Slippers Through the Desert – Strikes Again”; in 2002 “With the Slippers Through the Desert – Next Generation” and in 2004 “With the Slippers Through the Desert – No Limits”. All these escapades, whose initiators are the French Gerard Lucon, the Senegalese Thierno N’Diaye and the Romanian Mircea Toma, were heavily covered in the media. Each raid travelled through a medium distance of 10.000 km, more than a half of it in Africa, over 2.000 km in extreme Sahara conditions. You’ll ask us, and we will give you our sincere answer: why make this trip for six times, when we could comfortably have stayed home? Well, the raid contributed to the promotion of Romanian cars abroad, which is not a small thing, and made contacts for the opening of new potential markets for the Romanian products, contacts unimaginable even for the diplomats, bringing to the attention of the potential buyers our products, from cars to many other things Made in Romania. All we had to do was to present them as bait, and all they have to do is buy them. A good example is Dacia Show Room in Dakar, opened 4 years ago. The raid is supported by many institutions, like: Romanian Presidency, Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Morocco Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mali Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ministry of Justice in Senegal, Youth And Sports Ministry in Morocco, Senegal Honorific Consulate in Romania, International Francophonny Organization and The Royal Motoring Federation in Morocco.