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April 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Australian-organised motorbike rally that crosses Vietnam to raise money for children’s charity Blue Dragon will set off again with almost double the number of participants from last year.
A dinner for participants was held in capital Hanoi on Tuesday night, with the Australian ambassador to Vietnam Allaster Cox attending. The rally begins on Wednesday.
Blue Dragon founder Michael Brosowski, from Sydney, also attended. He said riders will drop in at the charity’s headquarters on Wednesday for breakfast. They’ll then drive to Hue in central Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail, an old wartime supply route, before flying on to Ho Chi Minh City.
“All money is going to our anti-trafficking (work). We are expanding our scope to include kids from ethnic minority villages in Dien Bien Phu province and also girls taken to China,” he told AAP via email on Tuesday.
Blue Dragon assists street kids and other underprivileged children in Vietnam and also works against traffickers who often hire young children from Vietnam’s poorest areas to work in garment factories in Ho Chi Minh City.
Last year, AAP reported the charity had worked with local authorities to secure the release of 23 children, some as young as 12, from garment factories in HCMC. They had been taken over a period of two years from their families from a small hamlet in remote northern Dien Bien Phu province.
Vietnam is rated as a Tier 2 Watch List nation in a worldwide report on human trafficking released by the US State Department last year.
Glenn Philips, one of three Australian organisers, says about $50,000 has been raised so far.
Each of the 25 participants paid a $3990 fee, $1600 of which goes direct to the charity.
Last year, riders handed over a cheque for $40,000.
“Personally, I am very excited to be involved in the second Rally Indochina and to see it grow from the previous year,” Mr Philips said.
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