HOW YOU CAN HELP

Until the end of June Polaris will donate 30% of all consumer purchases and 10% of all retailer purchases placed through this website. Our plan is to give 75% of the money raised for immediate use to the fund set up by The Chinese Embassy in London. The other 25% we will give to a Children’s Charity or aid organisation in the area of Beichuan.

If you are a consumer, by placing your order for any goods on this site (click ‘Buy’ and then choose the ‘Outdoors Unlimited’ button) we will automatically donate 30% of your total purchase to the fund.

If you are a retailer, log-in in the normal way and we will automatically donate 10% of your total purchases to the fund. If you do not have an account or login details please contact [email protected]

If you do not wish to purchase anything, but would still like to help, you can do so by making a donation into the following account. Name- Polaris China Earthquake Appeal - Account number- 51726137 - Sort Code- 40-17-15

Report from Chengdu from Hans Godspeed Ngo
(Polaris sponsored rider)

Hans Ngo is a member of a cycling club in Chengdu. Polaris are honoured to be sponsors of the team who have done many lengthy, and well publicised rides in China. He tells us below how he and his cycle team have been giving aid since the recent earthquake.

“We are in Chengdu suffering the earthquake. More than 30,000 people have been killed, this the number that we know so far. Last night, a group of cyclists from my club did blood donation. From 23:00 to 05:00am.

Now I am organising a group of BRAVE cyclists from Chengdu, trying to help the local government to find out the newest situation. The roads to several destroyed towns have been broken, so our second group cyclists will be in charge of the goods transport, such as anti-biotics, compressed biscuts, etc.

I've just come back from the front line. My men and I carry medicine and food to those remote villages in the last few days. On our way back, we helped the villagers to clean their wounds, and helped them hike out of the villages.

The place we went to is called Chaping. Only the dead and military rescue team are still there. Army is still trying to find the survivors, even there is just little hope.

Now we might need more tents to help these homeless people to make their "home" or shelter.”

Most of the photos below were taken by Hans.