Rally Driver Speaks Out on Race To Erase Poverty from the Planet During East African Safari Classic Rally

WHAT: INTERVIEW AVAILABILITIES RACE4CHANGE & EAST AFRICAN SAFARI CLASSIC

NEW YORK and NAIROBI, Kenya, November 18 - Race4Change (www.race4change.org) is a highly charged campaign to rev up
the race to end poverty on the planet through microfinance. Our mission is to
drive a movement amongst road, rally, sports enthusiasts, and socially
responsible people and organizations to move masses of people to make change
happen. We are racing towards a revolution that will unleash economic and
creative innovation in the lives of millions of people powered by the engine
of microfinance. It is a vital poverty fighting tool that can improve
peoples' health, education, and the environment and move the world from
conflict and need to peace and prosperity. Small microloans are creating
great change. Micro-entrepreneurs are empowered socially, economically and
filled with dignity. They repay their loans with interest, which allows
microfinance to re-lend and reach even more people.

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Race4Change donates all of the money it receives to two of the world's
most important poverty fighting machines, the Microcredit Summit Campaign
(www.microcreditsummit.org) and the Kenyan Microfinance program Jamii Bora.
(www.jamiibora.org).

Steven Funk, racecar driver, car #20 Race4Change has been endorsed by
Travis Pastrana, motorsports racing champion who stands behind this cause and
the efforts of Race4Change in their fight against poverty. "It's great that
Pastrana has given his support to such an important cause and our efforts
during the race, the East African Safari Classic - one of the toughest
rallies in the world in an effort to raise money and public attention for
microcredit in the race to end poverty on the planet," said Funk.

Surinder Thatthi, Events Director, of the East African Safari Rally and
Vice President of the FIA believes, "It's a great thing that they are doing
and we definitely support Race4Change whole heartedly in their fight against
poverty."

WHO: SPEAKERS WHO ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS INCLUDE-

IN KENYA:

Dr. Steven Funk, racecar driver of car #20, Race4Change
(www.race4change.org) in the East African Safari Classic, is a successful
private equity investor. He built three operating businesses over a 20 year
period, each becoming one of the largest in their sectors. Steven is a
founder of the Dignity Fund, chair of the Director's Advisory Group of the
Microcredit Summit Campaign, and a microfinance expert.

Surinder Thatthi, has been a navigator with four African rally
championship wins and numerous safari rally finishes with prominent drivers
amongst them being Mike Kirkland in 1990/91. He is also Vice President of the
FIA (Federation Internationale de l'Automobile) and Events Director East
African Safari Rally. In 2003 he was the rally manager and in 2005 the clerk
of course for the classic safari rally.

Ingrid Munro is founder of the Kenyan Microfinance Institution, Jamii
Bora, and a Microfinance ECO-Pioneer. With no more than a dozen volunteer
staff members, Munro launched Jamii Bora in 1999 in the slums of Nairobi to
help the poor lead productive lives. Munro's program is not like traditional
microcredit programs. From the beginning she was focused on helping the
poorest people climb the ladder out of poverty. Munro gave loans to beggars,
thieves and HIV positive people. Her program brings micro-water,
micro-education, micro-housing and micro-insurance programs to the poorest
people in Kenya. She built the first African Microfinance ECO-Village 36 km
outside of Nairobi called Kaputiei. Jamii Bora brings microloans to more than
250,000 people. Today people travel from all over the world to learn more
about the innovative Jamii Bora microfinance model.

IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Sam Daley-Harris is Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign and
President of RESULTS, a citizens lobby working to end poverty. In 1986 he
launched the first campaign to encourage the United States Congress to fund
international microcredit programs as a means to end poverty. He was
encouraged by the Grameen Bank. In 2007, the Microcredit Summit Campaign
surpassed its goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families
with life-saving access to micro loans. Then they raised the bar, declaring a
new goal of reaching 175 million of the world's poorest families with
microcredit by 2015. They further declared that they would measure the move
out of poverty of the 100 million families already reached with microcredit.

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, November 18 - TUESDAY November 24, 2009

WHERE: IN PERSON IN KENYA, AND OVER THE PHONE INTERVIEWS

For more information please contact: Denise Hughes at +1-917-549-2621 or
Denise@creative-connectors.com

WHY: 24,000 children die every day from poverty. (UNICEF). Race4Change is
racing to save the lives of those children. 100% of the money raised will
benefit the Kenyan Microfinance Institution, Jamii Bora Trust, one of the
fastest growing microfinance programs in Kenya and the upcoming Africa-Middle
East Region Microcredit Summit to be held April 7-10, 2010 in Kenya.

www.Race4Change.org

Denise Hughes, +1-917-549-2621, Denise at creative-connectors.com, for Race4Change