Celebrity Motorbike Challenge

Stars Join Health Workers in Lesotho

Gethin Jones, Darren Gough, Shobna Gulati, Jill Halfpenny and Oliver Mellor are set to swap the
studio for the saddle as they make their final preparations for the Get On Africa expedition which
will see them join a group of health workers in Lesotho, where they will spend a week visiting
isolated villages on motorbikes.

Having spent the past months learning to ride and undergoing off-road training the group will fly out
to Lesotho on 4th April when they will team up with charity Riders for Health. The group will spend
five days riding out to clinics which support some of the most isolated and poorest communities in
Africa while also joining local health workers in delivering the vital supplies in the fight against HIV
and tuberculosis.

Riders for Health specialise in using reliable motorbikes to get local health workers on the road so
they can deliver health care to remote and inaccessible villages and communities in seven countries
in Africa. The celebrities will link up with the charity's activities in Lesotho which has one of the
severest HIV problems in the world, with nearly 1 in 4 adults having HIV and approximately 1 in 3
children being born with the virus.

Spending five days in the saddle, the celebrities will be visiting clinics in Roma and Semonkong,
which provide health care to 30,000 people in 60 villages. The group will be putting their new found
off-road skills to the test as they visit some of the remotest villages in Lesotho and combat the
Kingdom's poor road network.

The expedition is being organised by Get On, the UK bike industry's campaign to promote the
benefits of life on two wheels. The campaign aims to show both the positive impact which bikes can
have on society as well as how easy and accessible it is to learn.

The public will be able to follow the expedition every step of the way at www.geton.co.uk/africa,
which launched today and will be updated every day until the end of the trip on 10th April. Visitors
can already watch videos, see pictures and read blogs of the celebrities training, while daily updates
will be posted live from Lesotho. The expedition can also be followed via Facebook
www.facebook.com/GetOnUK and Twitter www.twitter.com/GetOnTweets