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Posted by Drone Ireland – Brian Martin, Ireland by Air on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Oisín Creagh is planning to fly his paramotor on a 3,000km journey from Ireland to Morocco, to raise money and awareness for Gorta-Self Help Africa.
The Cork-based pilot plans to set out from Co. Antrim in August 2016, and expects his journey, which includes 100km over sea, to take around a month depending on weather, flying in the mornings and evenings when conditions are less thermic.
Oisín Creagh’s planned route from Ireland to Africa
Oisín is hoping to raise money to support the work of Gorta-Self Help Africa, an Irish charity who work in drought-stricken Ethiopia where crop failures have affected close t0 20 million people this year. He says the charity are “making a real difference to the lives of some of the very poorest and most disadvantaged people in the world.”
You can make a donation through Self Help Africa website, and follow Oisín’s progress through Flyafrica’s Facebook page.
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