Dan Murdoch

Dan Murdoch
Age: 24
Birthplace: London, England

Dan spent a few weeks in Cambodia some years ago, initially on the tourist trail - Phnom Penh to Angkor Wat - a classic, sanitised journey through what seemed to be a country on the mend. It was only when he hired a scooter and drove off the beaten track that Dan realised how the brutality of the 1970s and 80s still permeates the life of normal people.

He was shocked and depressed to see children maimed by landmines begging on the streets, carrying few prospects and little hope.

"These children need the chance to pull themselves from a poverty brought about not by their own choices, but by history.

Since visiting Cambodia I have done nothing more than donate regularly to the Red Cross."

After graduating from Brighton University with a BA (Hons) in philosophy and history, Dan has spent the last two years working as a reporter in London and its leafy Surrey suburb, a million miles from the people Trabant Trek is setting out to help.

But for a trip with such an epic scope, and the chance to raise awareness of the country´s terrible state of affairs, and a formidable sum of cash for a good cause, Dan has determined that it is worth putting his career in journalism on the backburner.

"Helping NGOs on the way will let us all put something into the countries we visit, and provide an insight into the problems so many of these nations face. The opportunity to contribute, in whatever capacity I can, to a host of causes is too good to miss.

I hope this trip will help us raise awareness of the serious issues and incredible hardships facing many Cambodians."