Cross the Moroccan desert, for 8 days, in a 1990 Golf Mk2, with a mission statement: submit school supplies, sports equipment and toys to underprivileged families. Nicolas Ross Bianco, from Turin (Italy), 4th year student of ADE + General Management at the University of Navarra, will participate from tomorrow, Saturday, February 10, in the 13th edition of UNIRAID. He will do so together with more than 100 young people from Spain and Portugal, between 18 and 28 years old. 

Following the routes of the old Paris-Dakar, the participants will leave from Tangier and cross Morocco through the interior crossing the Atlas Mountains, where they will deliver solidarity material to different villages. In the case of Nicolás, thanks to the partnership of Tantaka, the Solidarity Time Bank of the University of Navarra, the material he will carry has been donated by the Osasuna Foundation and Movistar.

During the journey, which will end in Marrakech, they will have to overcome natural obstacles and various tests of strategy and skill. In the six stages of the rally they will only be able to use a roadbook, a map and a compass to orient themselves. Nicolás will do so as part of the Astro Race Team, accompanied by Antonio Juárez, a student of International Relations at the Francisco de Vitoria University.

"The biggest challenge, without a doubt, will be to resist all the hours of driving on the sand, something that requires a lot of concentration: we will have to avoid different obstacles, minimize damage to the car, and manage to repair any faults that may occur in order to reach the destination," he explains. Despite the possible setbacks, Nicolás sees in this experience "an opportunity to help those who need it most. Besides, knowing first-hand the needs of so many people makes you rethink many things and learn to value what you sometimes take for granted.