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Our intrepid celebrity hosts endure physical and emotional battles, to make difficult and dangerous deliveries to the needy and underprivileged. Travelling by any means possible through inhospitable terrain, they tackle everything from a cow that won’t budge to mountain roads that have tragically disappeared. Their hope is to make a difference to communities lacking food, shelter, education and medicines. Join them as they go the extra mile in their extraordinary challenges!
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Season 1
Cambodia (Siem Reap) Water Filters Delivery
Many Cambodian children suffer and die each year from waterborne disease. It is an unnecessary tragedy caused by poverty and very poor sanitation – especially for the villagers living in Siem Reap province. Host Khai Saharom takes on a special delivery – sponsoring and bringing water filters to a rural village to help combat and solve the problem. The journey promises to be eventful as Khai must himself drive the truck carrying the filters – something he has never done before.
Vietnam (Hung Yen Province) Cow Delivery
Host Greta Georges is in Vietnam on a special delivery mission for World Vision, a humanitarian organization dedicated to tackling the root causes of poverty. She has to buy a young cow, bring it for vaccination and insemination and then deliver the precious bovine. Waiting for Greta in Hung Yen province is a young woman who is shouldering the entire burden for her impoverished family comprising an aged father, a disabled husband; two malnourished children. Greta knows this delivery is indeed special for it that could finally lift the recipients out of poverty.
Nepal (Kathmandu-Chimchok) School Reconstruction
Two years after a catastrophic earthquake struck Nepal, there are many who continue to live with the repercussions of the seismic disaster. Homes have not been fully rebuilt leaving victims without shelter, and schools are still in the process of being repaired. Host Paul Foster hooks up with his Nepalese friends to undertake a tough, dangerous and exhilarating 14 hour drive up the mountains in a special delivery of masonry that will help rebuild schools and bring the children back into the classroom.
Sri Lanka (Colombo-Kilinochchii) Soccer Boots Delivery
In the heart of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, lies a village in Kilinochchi with a remarkable story. In a country known for its recent pain of civil strife and its love of Cricket, a group of teenage girls have decided to form a soccer team and bend it like Beckham. Nothing unusual about that, except that these girls have made it to third spot in the National Soccer League – and are doing so without even the most basic soccer gear – not even a single pair of boots. Host Pei Fen lugs her special delivery of boots onto a train – for the long ride from Colombo to Kilinochchi, but not before encountering unexpected problems along the way. But despite the stress, she presses on – eager to help the girls put the tragic past behind and look forward to a brighter future.
Vietnam (Hanoi-Tuyen Quang Province) Postal Service
In the mountainous area of Tuyen Quang province, Vietnam, is a tribal commune isolated from modernity and from loved ones who have gone to the cities in search of better lives. Emails and SMS-es are practically non-existent to the point where the tribes rely on a special postman to deliver items such as gifts and letters from loved ones. Host Daniel Hutchinson joins the postman in delivering personal packages to the families but not before embarking on an arduous journey to where the tribes are situated.
Laos (Luang Prabang-Mekong River) Medical Supplies Delivery
Along the Laotian banks of the mighty Mekong are pockets of underprivileged, isolated and mosquito-infested villages. The people here live a subsistence lifestyle and apart from the river, have no access to the outside world. There are no roads, no cars, no phones, no internet and no distributed electricity. Host Carla D partners with “Bridging the Gap Mekong Trust” to travel upriver to a remote village in her special delivery of mosquito-nets and precious medical supplies.
Malaysia (Taman Negara Pahang) Tools for a Better Life
The Orang Asli – recognised as the first people of Peninsula Malaysia. It’s a diverse collection of tribes and most, with government assistance, now live in riverine villages in Taman Negara. But there are some who still follow the old hunter-gatherer ways. But such a way of life – idyllic as it may seem, does not mean they have it easy. Host Paul Foster journeys up the Tembeling River and into the primeval forest in search of just such a community from the Batek tribe. His mission, to deliver tools and material that the Batek will need to sustain their traditional way of living.
Indonesia (Serang) Horse Mobile Library
For some years now, a mobile horse library helmed by a stable hand has been making its rounds around the villages of Serang. It’s almost a Quixotic quest to tackle Indonesia’s low literacy by encouraging reading. Host Khai Saharom joins Ridwan Sururi in this endearing and noble effort to bring books to the villagers. On his journey, he meets Lasmi, a very shy young autistic girl whom Riduan has successfully taught to read.
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