The Budapest-Bamako Great African Run is now the world's largest amateur car rally and the biggest charity car race in Africa. Often described as a low budget version of the world famous Paris-Dakar rally, the Budapest-Bamako rally is 9000 kilometers long via a route that passes through Hungary, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Mauritania and Mali. Participants travel on hard desert tracks and through beautiful casbah towns of Morocco before entering the politically sensitive and sometimes heavily mined area of Western Sahara, one of the the least densely populated regions on Earth.

The Budapest-Bamako rally is also an important charity event, that brings direct donations to communities in Mali and Mauritania, two of the poorest countries in the world. Many teams are sponsored by businesses as part of the corporate social responsibility program.

• In 2009 over 700,000 Euros worth of aid was delivered to Africa; a British team brought solar panels and solar ovens to several Malian villages and a Dutch women's team delivered 230 bicycles to an organization called, Women on Bikes (the NGO teaches women to ride bicycles so they can get jobs away from their villages)
  
• In 2008 the Budapest Bank and Bayer Red Cross donated an ambulance and a minivan for the Institute For The Blind in Bamako after both vehicles were driven from Budapest to Bamako; teams dug a well in the village of El Geddiya and donated medical equipment to a free clinic in a Bamako slum, including sterilization equipment and an incubator
  
• In 2007 money was raised for a Bamako orphanage; race participants adopted several villages en route and delivered medical and educational supplies
  
  

The team that performs the most outstanding charity work receives the Mother Teresa Charity Award - and with your help the Sponsor A Rally Truck Team can win this honour