0:00:02 > 0:00:03- CAR HORN SOUNDS - You've done...- Doing that?- No!
0:00:03 > 0:00:05- No-one does that.- No, I'm doing it. - HORN HONKS
0:00:08 > 0:00:10For Comic Relief this year,
0:00:10 > 0:00:14six celebrities are well and truly in the driving seat.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Oh, my God.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21They're guiding a convoy of trucks 7,000km from Nairobi in Kenya
0:00:21 > 0:00:23to eastern Uganda.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27- Now, have we done the right? No. - Babe, we've just started driving.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Their road -
0:00:29 > 0:00:32the Northern Corridor,
0:00:32 > 0:00:34the busiest trade route in East Africa...
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Everything seems to have fallen apart
0:00:35 > 0:00:37sooner than even I thought it would.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40..and one of the most dangerous highways in the world.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43- No, no, no!- Whoa!
0:00:43 > 0:00:46# Shut up and drive
0:00:46 > 0:00:50# Shut up and drive... #
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Yes!
0:00:52 > 0:00:54That is what I'm talking about.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56The team are delivering vital supplies
0:00:56 > 0:00:58to Comic Relief-funded projects.
0:00:58 > 0:00:59It's not heavy.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03God, the lives of unborn children are relying on MY biceps.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05Life-saving maternity equipment...
0:01:05 > 0:01:08It's literally going to save women's lives, babies' lives.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09..bicycles...
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Start on this foot.
0:01:11 > 0:01:13There we go, there we go.
0:01:13 > 0:01:17And a huge delivery of mosquito nets to an entire community.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19'To actually place the nets into the hands of the people
0:01:19 > 0:01:20'that need them most...'
0:01:20 > 0:01:22- Thank you.- Take care.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23..it's huge for me.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Getting gloves on, man.
0:01:25 > 0:01:26It's about to get real.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31It's the road trip of a lifetime.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I feel like a flower.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43They'll see first-hand how local project workers...
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Wow!
0:01:44 > 0:01:46..are using the money you donate...
0:01:46 > 0:01:49- BICYCLE BELL RINGS - Beatrice, you can slow down now.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51Slow down, Beatrice!
0:01:51 > 0:01:52..to change lives.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Next time I'm whingeing because my skinny latte isn't warm enough,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I think a little voice will go, "Shut up, you snivelling idiot."
0:02:17 > 0:02:19It's bright and early,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21and the team are assembling in central Nairobi.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25- Hello. Can I have a cup of tea? - Yeah.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29On tea duty, comedians Hugh Dennis and David Baddiel.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Any sweeteners?
0:02:31 > 0:02:35Joining them, documentary maker Reggie Yates...
0:02:35 > 0:02:37- How you doing?- Yeah, great.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39..comedy actress Katy Brand...
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Oh, wow, thanks very much.
0:02:41 > 0:02:46..comedian Russell Kane and actress and writer Michaela Coel.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49- Thank you.- So, we're driving to Uganda, aren't we?
0:02:49 > 0:02:52I haven't driven in, like, six years or something.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55- You haven't driven in six years? - I'm just a cyclist, mate.
0:02:55 > 0:02:56You're just talking to a cyclist!
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- It's got a red nose on. - What's that?- Oh, my God, it does.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07The lorry's got a red nose on.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09- That's one of our lorries. - That's part of our convoy.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15The team will be navigating the route and leading the convoy.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18But before they set off,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21security chief Bob Nyanja must brief them on the challenges of the road.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Hello.
0:03:25 > 0:03:26- Good morning.- Morning.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30Morning, famous citizens of the United Kingdom.
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Welcome to Nairobi.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33In the next six days,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36you're going to be driving about 700km.
0:03:36 > 0:03:40A couple of years back, an online publication rated this road
0:03:40 > 0:03:44as the fifth most dangerous road to drive on in the world.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47The Northern Corridor. Everything is on that road.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52Buses, trucks, lorries, trailers, zebras, antelopes.
0:03:52 > 0:03:53Jesus Christ.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57Last year alone we had more than 3,000 fatalities on this road.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00So, I'm very serious, you need to be careful.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04Our first stop is going to be a place called Kibera.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- OK.- So, what are you waiting for? Let's go!
0:04:08 > 0:04:09Let's move!
0:04:11 > 0:04:14The teams will take it in turns to head up the convoy.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I forgot my cossie!
0:04:16 > 0:04:19First up, good friends Michaela and Reggie.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22- Just checking that our walkie-talkie is working.- It's important.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Where's the walkie?
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Where is the walkie? Interesting start.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Roger, Michaela.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31This is who I am.
0:04:31 > 0:04:34Roger, if you can hear us, if you're not currently rogering,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- can you respond? - Can Roger confirm that he's working?
0:04:37 > 0:04:39- Roger, can you roger? - Roger, can you just roger us?
0:04:45 > 0:04:46Over the next six days,
0:04:46 > 0:04:50the team will make deliveries along East Africa's major trade route,
0:04:50 > 0:04:51the Northern Corridor.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Through the Western Highlands, and over the border into Uganda...
0:04:57 > 0:05:01..700km to their final destination of Nagongera.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07But first, they must tackle the Kenyan capital...
0:05:07 > 0:05:08HORNS HONK
0:05:08 > 0:05:10..in rush-hour.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12There's a big sign that says exit.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I know, yeah. What I propose is that we take a right here.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- Thank you, thanks for that. - We took a right...
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Have we done the right? No.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Babe, we've just started driving.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24Yeah, but we had to do a left, right out of here.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31- I don't know what I'm doing. - Just go straight.
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I can't go straight. That's no entry.
0:05:34 > 0:05:35- Oh, go right, then.- Go right?
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- I don't know.- No, I'm going left. - 'It's no entry?'
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Yes, I'm going left.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40We're going left, just because...
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Just because...I don't know why.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44- HUGH:- Where's the lead car?
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Er... Yeah, no idea where we are.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- RUSSELL:- Still trying to work out what the lead car is.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Oh, no, I think we're behind it. Yes! Over.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- KATY:- I'm now behind Michaela and Reggie.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57We are directly behind Reggie and Michaela, over.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Hiya!
0:06:02 > 0:06:04The Comic Relief truck is now behind us.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14The first delivery is 8km south-west of the centre,
0:06:14 > 0:06:17from modern Nairobi's wealthy heartland
0:06:17 > 0:06:19into one of its poorest divisions, Kibera.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24This land was once forest,
0:06:24 > 0:06:26but over the last century
0:06:26 > 0:06:29it's grown into the largest urban slum in Africa.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32That is Kibera, I assume.
0:06:32 > 0:06:33Yeah.
0:06:33 > 0:06:37Over 250,000 people live here, in the most basic of homes,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40with no running water or decent sanitation,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43and with no access to public health care.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51This is the most full-on place I've ever been in my entire life.
0:06:51 > 0:06:54I've never seen anything like this.
0:06:54 > 0:06:55Nothing.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58There's the health centre.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00- Where?- There.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02There. There, there.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04- There?- There.- Stop saying "there".
0:07:04 > 0:07:06There's a man in a white coat.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09A doctor. That's a doctor, definitely a doctor.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11Yeah, let's park over here.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Kibera Amref Medical Centre serves 70,000 people.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20It's an essential lifeline for the community.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Hello. I'm Hugh.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- What's your name?- Walter. - Walter and...?- Virginia.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Today, Comic Relief is delivering equipment for the maternity unit,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39including a much-needed ultrasound machine.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Delivery beds,
0:07:43 > 0:07:45examination couch.
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Beds, examination couch.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Ow!
0:07:50 > 0:07:51- Right on me foot.- Doctor!
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Right on me big toe.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- We've got to lift that?- Yes, that's the ultrasound machine.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- What is it?- The ultrasound machine. - That's the ultrasound machine?
0:07:59 > 0:08:01OK, all right.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Let me get in this bit, at least.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Ohh. Oh, my God.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07That's not heavy.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10God, the lives of unborn children are relying on MY biceps.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Hello, Violet. Nice to meet you, my name's Michaela.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Let me walk you to the maternity.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Michaela is shadowing midwife Violet Bosibori.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21- Delivery room.- Yeah, delivery room.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Like many of the staff here,
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Violet has received training through Comic Relief funding.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Tell me, what am I going to be doing today?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Today, we have one mother in labour.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34We have one mother in labour?
0:08:34 > 0:08:35- What is her name?- Shamira.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37Shamira? And what stage is she at right now?
0:08:37 > 0:08:42- She's still in the first stage. - OK.- She was about six centimetres.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I've never seen...
0:08:45 > 0:08:47anybody have a baby.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50- Oh.- So, what can I expect?
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Expect the mother to be very uncomfortable, screaming, maybe.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58- Blood may splash on you. - Mm-hm. I'm ready.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Getting gloves on, man.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03It's about to get real.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I'm overcompensating. I'm hyperventilating inside.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11OK, cool.
0:09:14 > 0:09:18- How many KG is that? - I think that is 77.
0:09:18 > 0:09:23Katy is in the antenatal department, with senior midwife Virginia Njeri.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25This is called a foetoscope.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27- A foetoscope?- A foetoscope.
0:09:27 > 0:09:29So, Hilda is about 38 weeks?
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- Yes.- It could be any time, really.
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Uh-huh. Now, it is here.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Can I hear it? OK.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39You feel something saying "tsh-tsh-tsh-tsh".
0:09:41 > 0:09:42- You tell me?- Yes?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Yes, a little baby.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I wish you could listen -
0:09:48 > 0:09:50but we're not made that way!
0:09:50 > 0:09:53When you feel all of that, you reassure this mother.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- All is well.- I remember, as soon as they heard the heartbeat,
0:09:57 > 0:09:58I felt better.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02It's very instructive to see how Virginia works.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Obviously she's just highly experienced
0:10:05 > 0:10:07and highly skilled as a midwife.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10She knows exactly what she's doing, without any of the equipment.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13But, as anyone who has been pregnant knows,
0:10:13 > 0:10:17all you want is to look after the baby that's inside you
0:10:17 > 0:10:19and make sure it's OK.
0:10:19 > 0:10:23You know, the kind of equipment that we take for granted in the UK
0:10:23 > 0:10:25allows you to do all that.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26So, I just feel enormously...
0:10:26 > 0:10:30pleased that we get to bring them an ultrasound machine.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33I think it's all set up and ready to go, the ultrasound machine.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35- My God, it's here!- I know.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38It's good. My goodness.
0:10:38 > 0:10:42So, this is how I have been taught, this is the patient information.
0:10:44 > 0:10:46Virginia's first patient is already on her way.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Are you feeling very tired?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50No, no.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52No, I'm a bit better.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54Rose is 27 weeks pregnant with her second child.
0:10:57 > 0:11:02- Hello. Hi.- How are you? I am good.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06- Come in.- For the first time.
0:11:06 > 0:11:07- It's exciting.- Yes.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- Can you see this?- Yes. - That is the heart of the baby.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19- OK.- That's the first thing we need to check on the ultrasound.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Is it strange to see the baby inside you, Rose?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24Yes.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26There is the heartbeat, there.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30I've been talking to Virginia all day
0:11:30 > 0:11:33about the arrival of this ultrasound machine.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36She's been so looking forward to it being here.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38The conditions that a pregnant woman can have,
0:11:38 > 0:11:40even as skilled and experienced as Virginia is,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42she can't diagnose it without a machine like this.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44It's just a massive moment for this clinic.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48It is literally going to save women's lives, babies' lives.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51It's like a whole new era for the clinic, really.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Good. The baby is a girl.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Hey, wow.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- Amazing.- So, you have a boy and a girl.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- Yes.- And is the baby healthy, as you can see?
0:12:02 > 0:12:04Yes, the baby is healthy.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06That's the best thing.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08- I feel better.- You feel better?
0:12:08 > 0:12:09- Yeah.- Is it, like, a relief?
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- Yes, I feel relieved.- Good.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14Virginia, can I give you a hug?
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- Thank you.- Thank you. - You've been so welcoming.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18It's been so lovely to meet you.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22- I'm really glad you got your machine.- Welcome.- Thank you.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29The baby is just here.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38In terms of medicine for pain relief,
0:12:38 > 0:12:40what do you guys have?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43- We have nothing.- You have nothing? - Yes.- OK.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46So there's nothing to ease the pain?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50OK.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52I know it's painful, you can do it.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54You are strong, OK?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57You are strong.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Breathe, breathe.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08SHE MOANS
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Slowly, slowly, slowly.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30Wow, that's a baby! Wow!
0:13:30 > 0:13:33Oh, my God.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Congratulations.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37That was good.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Well done.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46It's a boy? It's a girl!
0:13:46 > 0:13:49It's a girl. It is a girl.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Congratulations.- Girls are the best.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Wow!
0:13:57 > 0:13:593.35.
0:14:00 > 0:14:033.35.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07They're working with limited equipment, really.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11It's amazing.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16I know this is, like, the bit where, like...
0:14:16 > 0:14:19someone's saying, please give money.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23I have been at home, many times, especially my teenage years,
0:14:23 > 0:14:27I've watched these things and I haven't got it.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30But I really get it.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32It literally doesn't take much, you know.
0:14:32 > 0:14:38If you give a tiny bit, if everybody gives a tiny bit, it's, like, loads.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41I can't find a reason
0:14:41 > 0:14:46not to just pick up the damn phone and give a LITTLE bit of money.
0:14:46 > 0:14:47There's no reason.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Yeah.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53Wow.
0:14:55 > 0:14:59If you want to help Virginia, Violet and the amazing team at Kibera,
0:14:59 > 0:15:00please text.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I can't believe that just happened!
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Wow.
0:15:39 > 0:15:40- Thank you.- You're welcome.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Yeah. Congratulations.
0:15:43 > 0:15:44OK.
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Amazing.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02After yesterday's successful delivery to the Kibera clinic,
0:16:02 > 0:16:05the team have two more drops to make.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06CAR HORN SOUNDS
0:16:06 > 0:16:07- You've done...- Doing that?- No!
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- No-one does that.- No, I'm doing it. - HORN HONKS
0:16:09 > 0:16:12But with 600km until the next one...
0:16:12 > 0:16:15- Come on, gang. Let's go.- Come on. - Let's get some aggression.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18..they've got some serious hours to put in on the road.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Well done. It seemed to work, that technique.- It worked.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Hi, this is Hugh in the lead vehicle.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26- The lead vehicle?- Yeah.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29We're just checking that the convoy's still intact.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Hello, Hugh. This is Katy. We are directly behind you.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Katy's directly behind us.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37- That's good. - You could probably have told me that
0:16:37 > 0:16:38by just looking in the mirror.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41And I think Reggie and Michaela are directly behind us.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Is that right, guys?
0:16:42 > 0:16:45MUSIC: Koffi Anan by Yemi Alade
0:16:45 > 0:16:49Reggie and Michaela might be behind them, but they've gone.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52They've adopted radio silence for a bit.
0:17:00 > 0:17:03The team are guiding the trucks out of Nairobi
0:17:03 > 0:17:05along the Northern Corridor...
0:17:05 > 0:17:07also known as the Devil's Highway.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14From Nairobi, today's route is 260km.
0:17:14 > 0:17:1711 hours of slow-moving traffic,
0:17:17 > 0:17:19through the Great Rift Valley,
0:17:19 > 0:17:22to their overnight stop of Kericho in the Western Highlands.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30Just outside Nairobi,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33the road drops into one of the most important places on earth
0:17:33 > 0:17:36for us humans.
0:17:36 > 0:17:37So this is the Rift Valley, I guess?
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- I think it must be.- It's amazing.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Do they call this the cradle of humanity?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Have I got that right, or have I made that up?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Don't know. I'd have to ask Google, but I ain't got Wi-Fi.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- I think Africa is the cradle of humanity.- No, it is. It is.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53This is sort of where all human ancestors began.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56- What did you just say? - What do you mean, sort of?
0:17:56 > 0:17:59- We're just pulling over. - What kind of talk is that, sort of?
0:17:59 > 0:18:00You don't see David Attenborough
0:18:00 > 0:18:03- saying...- No, he doesn't ever say that...- .."sort of gorillas".
0:18:08 > 0:18:14Stretching for over 6,000km, from Jordan to Mozambique,
0:18:14 > 0:18:17the Great Rift Valley was once home to our earliest ancestors
0:18:17 > 0:18:19more than four million years ago.
0:18:24 > 0:18:27So what does modern man do when visiting such a place?
0:18:29 > 0:18:31Where's it come from, sheep?
0:18:31 > 0:18:33- Sheep.- Oh, that fits.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37I think he's got a tremendous deal, with not really haggling at all.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39No, you'd never pay £20 for a hat, would you?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42- Not even in Camden.- In Camden Market you wouldn't pay £20.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45Also, you would never wear this hat apart from now.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Are you seriously telling me to go on there?
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Make sure you're on the vertical struts underneath, can you see?
0:18:51 > 0:18:53I'm taking panoramic now.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Are you quoting Shakespeare?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02It's cos it's like a Shakespearean stage.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03Or that the Everlasting
0:19:03 > 0:19:06had not turned its canon 'gainst self-slaughter.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Uh-oh.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18- I think we win the hat game. - Yeah, we do win the hat game.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23It's already noon,
0:19:23 > 0:19:25and with only a quarter of today's distance completed,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28they're settling in for a long journey.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31- I think I might ask you...- Yeah. - ..to take my pouch off.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32- What, while we're driving?- Yeah.
0:19:32 > 0:19:34Can you do that? Cos I can't do it.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I'm not sure I want to go there, Dave.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37Have a go.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41You don't know where the clip is. And neither do I.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43Just tell me where the clip is.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45- How do I know?- I'm just....
0:19:45 > 0:19:48What are you doing now? Now you're touching my genitals.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49Don't touch my genitals.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Your genitals aren't there!
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Oh, hello.
0:19:54 > 0:19:55That's tickling!
0:19:57 > 0:19:58Really, I think this is not safe.
0:19:58 > 0:20:02Oh, hang on, there it is. There we go, look, this is it.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04That's definitely already more comfortable.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Today's route takes the convoy
0:20:07 > 0:20:10through some of Kenya's worst traffic black spots.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Wheyy, watch out.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- Whoa!- BLEEP
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Every day an estimated 20,000 vehicles
0:20:20 > 0:20:23make their way along the Northern Corridor,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25and businesses have built up around it -
0:20:25 > 0:20:28including the sex-work industry,
0:20:28 > 0:20:31which has brought with it high rates of HIV infection.
0:20:32 > 0:20:35Reggie's breaking away from the convoy to visit Salgaa,
0:20:35 > 0:20:39a place that has grown from trucker stop to Wild West frontier town...
0:20:40 > 0:20:43..thought to be home to 1,500 sex workers.
0:20:46 > 0:20:47- Hello.- Hello.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49In one of the town's brothels,
0:20:49 > 0:20:52he's meeting community health worker Zachary.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54- Good to see you, man. Reggie. - Thank you, I'm Zachary.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- Pleasure to meet you.- Welcome. - These are the rooms that are used,
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- I take it?- These are rooms. These are lodges.
0:21:00 > 0:21:01For now it's closed,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04but from around 6pm you will see more trucks coming in.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Zachary's taking Reggie to meet a sex worker
0:21:08 > 0:21:11who faces the threat of contracting HIV every day.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15How old were you when you started?
0:21:15 > 0:21:20I started sex work when I was 24 years old and I'm now 30.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23The reason why I joined sex work is because I had no food
0:21:23 > 0:21:24to put for my children on the table.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28I'm not proud of it.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Are you working here this evening?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Yeah. I work day and night.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34- So, how much would you earn in one night?- £5.- Five English pounds?
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Yeah. There are so many things you have to do without money.
0:21:38 > 0:21:42You have to feed your children, pay school fees, pay rent.
0:21:42 > 0:21:45Is your injury related to what you do?
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- Yeah.- What happened?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49The client didn't want to use a condom,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51so I ended up fighting with him.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54Just because he didn't want to use a condom with me.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56I ended up breaking my arm.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59I'd prefer going back home without money
0:21:59 > 0:22:03than having sex with a client without a condom.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05I'm not HIV-positive.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Do you think that you'll stop any time soon?
0:22:07 > 0:22:10If I get an alternative source of income, then I will,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13because I really don't like this job.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15I do it just because of my children.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23It doesn't take you long to realise that this motorway
0:22:23 > 0:22:26is actually carrying the virus from one place to another,
0:22:26 > 0:22:31and this stop-off spot of Salgaa is multiplying it,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33in scary and dangerous ways,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36with massive collateral damage to families,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38to people and to women.
0:22:39 > 0:22:41Whether it makes you uncomfortable or not,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43what she's doing is for her children.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48The conditions that she's putting herself in
0:22:48 > 0:22:50are not what I would wish for my worst enemy.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59As Reggie pushes to catch up with the trucks,
0:22:59 > 0:23:03not everything is going smoothly for one of the convoy vehicles.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06- You see that's our truck?- Yeah. OK.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09They're heading the wrong way down a one-way street.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11There's a policeman.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- What does that mean?- I don't know. Have we been stopped by the police?
0:23:15 > 0:23:17I don't know.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20- Where's our what?- Driving licence?
0:23:23 > 0:23:25I'm very sorry.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- OK.- Yeah.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- Yes, it is.- It is good to talk. - Thank you very much indeed.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40- You are very kind.- Thank you, sir. - Thank you, sir.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Come on, my friend. Come on.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Come on, come on.
0:23:53 > 0:23:59OK, I think... I have now tested the acceleration and found it wanting.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Katy? This is Hugh.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05David wants to know if you need the lavatory.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Thank you, David, you're a gentleman.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12My bladder is doing all right, thank you.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- I'm on about 60%. - That's excellent news, thank you.
0:24:20 > 0:24:23After 12 hours, they finally make it to Kericho.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29- Thanks very much.- Welcome.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Hello. Hi, there.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37I'd like to trade in my chips for the roulette table, please.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40- Sorry?- Nothing, it's just a Vegas joke.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Having had very few places to stop on the road,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45there's just one thing on their minds.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48Problem is, the toilet doesn't flush, and...
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Things being as they are, that would be a problem.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53I don't want to go into detail, but...
0:24:53 > 0:24:56I just cried with happiness at this sight.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58That is a flushing toilet and a bath
0:24:58 > 0:24:59where I can get my head under the tap.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02It's amazing how quickly you miss home.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05All right, see you later, guys.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06You'd better not come in,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08because we've got, like, roast swan and stuff like that
0:25:08 > 0:25:10and it looks bad.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- I'm driving, yeah?- You're driving. Come on.- All right.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35Come on, stop stalling now.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36OK.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Sorry, sorry, sorry.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53- Funny, is it?- Sorry. - My pants are ruined.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56On these cars, the indicator is on the right.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58And none of us are used to it.
0:25:58 > 0:25:59I just put my windscreen wiper on.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Every time we want to turn, if it's stressful,
0:26:02 > 0:26:04we turn the windscreen wipers on!
0:26:09 > 0:26:11- How was yesterday?- In Salgaa?
0:26:11 > 0:26:13A strange little place to go to, you know?
0:26:13 > 0:26:16It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19It's like a secret that the whole town knows, no-one talks about it...
0:26:19 > 0:26:20Pretty much.
0:26:20 > 0:26:23So is it therefore something that they feel is shameful?
0:26:23 > 0:26:26- Yeah. So, the sex workers are sort of looked down upon...- Right.
0:26:26 > 0:26:28..by the rest of the people in the town.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Problems Reggie witnessed in Salgaa
0:26:32 > 0:26:35have created a health issue in this province.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Almost one in five people here are living with HIV.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Russell and Katy are leaving the convoy to visit a project
0:26:44 > 0:26:46where many of the workers are living with HIV themselves.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51The place we're going today, the mothers2mothers project,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54is the one I've been looking forward to the most, actually.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00Because it's women who have taken the initiative to get together
0:27:00 > 0:27:03and help other women when they're diagnosed.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06The mothers2mothers project
0:27:06 > 0:27:09works in collaboration with the District Hospital.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Their workers are known as mentor mothers.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15Beatrice Misoga is the mentor-mother team leader.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18- Beatrice?- Yes, Beatrice.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21- Katy.- Welcome. - Thank you, thank you.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24- This is Russell.- Hi.- Hi. - I'm Russell, nice to meet you.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26I've heard so much about you. I'm a little bit starstruck.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28It's good to hear that.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33Mothers2mothers supports women living with HIV,
0:27:33 > 0:27:35providing them with access to education and drugs
0:27:35 > 0:27:38to help prevent their children becoming infected too.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41Katy, meet Kwinta.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- Hello, Kwinta.- Hello. - So nice to meet you.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46- Nice to meet you, too. - And who are you?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48- Hillary.- Hillary?
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Kwinta was diagnosed at the clinic last year,
0:27:52 > 0:27:53and Beatrice was there to support her.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Do you remember how you felt when you got your own diagnosis?
0:28:36 > 0:28:39- I'm happy.- So you're happy now? - I feel happy.
0:28:40 > 0:28:43I think what's clear is that when you're feeling on your own
0:28:43 > 0:28:46and you're frightened, and not only frightened for yourself
0:28:46 > 0:28:51but frightened because you've got a tiny helpless baby to look after,
0:28:51 > 0:28:55there is always someone here that you can come to who won't judge you,
0:28:55 > 0:28:57who will just help you.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02The project's main aim is to stop the transmission of HIV
0:29:02 > 0:29:04from mothers to their babies.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16That's amazing.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25Do you know,
0:29:25 > 0:29:27I think you'd be surprised that so many people in the UK,
0:29:27 > 0:29:30where we're from, didn't even know that was possible.
0:29:30 > 0:29:33- It is.- We think if a mother is HIV-positive, then the child 100%...
0:29:33 > 0:29:36- It is possible.- I did not know that. I'm ashamed to admit my ignorance.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37It is possible.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41It's amazing, it's like a miracle or something.
0:29:41 > 0:29:44When a baby is born to a mother living with HIV,
0:29:44 > 0:29:47the child is given medication for the first six weeks,
0:29:47 > 0:29:49but won't receive the all-clear for a year and a half.
0:29:53 > 0:29:56Russell is going to meet Mary Christine, a schoolteacher
0:29:56 > 0:30:00whose son Richard is about to have the crucial 18-month HIV test.
0:30:02 > 0:30:04(It's this one, guys.)
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Ah, hello, young man.
0:30:06 > 0:30:08Are you going to close the door in my face?
0:30:08 > 0:30:11That's what my daughter does to me. Well, that's the homesickness cured.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14- Come in, come in, come in. - Mary Christine, nice to meet you.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16- How are you?- Hello, I'm Russell, Russell Kane.- Good afternoon.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18Hello, I'm Russell. Nice to meet you.
0:30:18 > 0:30:19HE CHUCKLES
0:30:21 > 0:30:23Right, come on, let's have a chat.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25Am I OK to sit here?
0:30:25 > 0:30:27- Yeah.- Wonderful.
0:30:27 > 0:30:31Just so people know how it works, the baby is born,
0:30:31 > 0:30:34and at six weeks is the first test.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Then at six months, is that right?
0:30:37 > 0:30:40- Yeah.- And then, hopefully, they do the second test of the baby,
0:30:40 > 0:30:46hopefully still negative HIV status, and the final test is at 18 months,
0:30:46 > 0:30:48the final treatment and test,
0:30:48 > 0:30:50- we find out once and for all... - Yeah.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53..if Richard has escaped this HIV.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- Yeah.- And that's what you find out today.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58- Yeah.- We're here for that day.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00- Yeah.- How are you feeling?
0:31:00 > 0:31:02I'm OK, I'm fine.
0:31:02 > 0:31:03And I'm happy to meet you.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06You're more empowered than me, I'm the nervous one!
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Right.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Which way is it, is it this way?
0:31:12 > 0:31:16- No, let's follow this way. - I don't have a sense of direction!
0:31:16 > 0:31:19- I'm emotionally literate, but I can't find my way around.- OK.
0:31:19 > 0:31:20It's a nightmare.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25This is now the last test we are taking,
0:31:25 > 0:31:29and it is now going to give us the status of the baby.
0:31:32 > 0:31:33BABY CRIES
0:31:41 > 0:31:42Aww, it's all done.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Naughty nurse, isn't she?
0:31:45 > 0:31:48If it appears with two lines, it appears it is positive, yeah?
0:31:48 > 0:31:52If it appears with one line, it appears that...
0:31:52 > 0:31:56- It's negative.- Yeah. - How long does it normally take?
0:31:56 > 0:31:58After ten to 15 minutes.
0:31:58 > 0:32:00Right, crikey. Just got...
0:32:01 > 0:32:05..a bizarre urge to fling it, fling it out of the window.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07I sort of can't handle even knowing.
0:32:08 > 0:32:10There's one bar there. Come on, just call it.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15There's one bar. I can see one bar.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18- Three minutes to go.- (Oh, God.)
0:32:24 > 0:32:26OK, you can now read the results.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28It is negative!
0:32:28 > 0:32:29It is negative.
0:32:29 > 0:32:34Congratulations, and this is a good job.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38- Keep it up.- Congratulations. I'm so happy for you, I can't tell you.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40- My heart was beating out my chest. - Congratulations.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43- Thank you to you, too. - Congratulations to you, young man.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46My heart was like...
0:32:46 > 0:32:49thudding. Was your heart thudding like that?
0:32:49 > 0:32:50- Yeah.- It must have been.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52Yeah.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54My God, I'm so happy for you.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01In two years, Comic Relief money has trained 40 mentor mothers
0:33:01 > 0:33:04like Beatrice, and that means that children like Richard
0:33:04 > 0:33:07get the chance to live a life free from HIV.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Just 20 quid can buy four months of support
0:33:11 > 0:33:13for mums like Mary Christine.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17Just think about that - all the loving care, support, education,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20extending the reach of this amazing place, which has blown my mind.
0:33:20 > 0:33:2220 quid for four months.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24Please text, pick up your phone.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26It turns out they're not just for selfies of your abdomen
0:33:26 > 0:33:29to put on social media, you can do something amazing,
0:33:29 > 0:33:33you could text 20 quid right now and donate. Please.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38You can help mothers and children like Mary Christine and Richard.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13My God! Poor Katy!
0:34:13 > 0:34:15THEY LAUGH
0:34:15 > 0:34:19Today, the convoy is negotiating 170km
0:34:19 > 0:34:22through some of the most fertile farmlands of Kenya.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25MUSIC: Doo-Wop (That Thing) by Lauryn Hill
0:34:28 > 0:34:32The target is to get from Kisumu to the Ugandan border,
0:34:32 > 0:34:36one of the busiest stretches of road in the whole of East Africa,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39and then onto the town of Tororo by nightfall.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46- We're heading for the equator now. - Are we?- Yeah. Very near it.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48That's quite exciting. Have you crossed the equator before,
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- been on the equator?- Yeah. You don't know it's the equator, by the way,
0:34:51 > 0:34:54except there's probably a big sign saying, "This is the equator."
0:34:56 > 0:34:59We're going to pull into the left any second now, guys.
0:34:59 > 0:35:00Roger, thank you.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09So what I want to do is, I want to stand in the North
0:35:09 > 0:35:11and wee into the South.
0:35:11 > 0:35:15I want to urinate so that my body is in the northern hemisphere,
0:35:15 > 0:35:17but my wee lands in a different part of the Earth.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20Why? Men just always have to wee everywhere. It's like...
0:35:20 > 0:35:22What, are you going to try and mark an entire hemisphere
0:35:22 > 0:35:24as your turf by weeing on it?
0:35:24 > 0:35:27And it turns out it's not just Russell
0:35:27 > 0:35:30doing strange things with liquids here.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33This side, north hemisphere, we can see it rotates clockwise.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35No way is this going to work.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37South, it is changed, anticlockwise.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39I want to see this.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Remember the one about water flowing one way in
0:35:41 > 0:35:43the northern hemisphere...
0:35:43 > 0:35:46- So is this clockwise? - Clockwise, yeah.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48..and the other way in the South?
0:35:50 > 0:35:52- That's mad!- The level of magnetic force is completely different,
0:35:52 > 0:35:54we've only trod, like, two metres.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57To be honest, the other slight thing is that we checked where the equator
0:35:57 > 0:36:00is, and it says that it's actually about 170 yards that way!
0:36:08 > 0:36:10Whoa! I am so sorry, I'm so sorry.
0:36:10 > 0:36:13Oh, dear. I hit about 20 of those yesterday.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26- Oh, my God!- It was just like a bomb.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29- I missed that, what's happened? - His truck has exploded!
0:36:29 > 0:36:31- Is that your battery? - Yeah, it has just exploded.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33- Just like a bomb.- What?!- Boom!
0:36:35 > 0:36:38After seven hours of progress on the open road...
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Bloody hell, that is so over the top.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46..the queue for the border is something else.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Are we in the queue?
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Yeah.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56What are you going to do if you have to spend the day in your car?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Actually just have to buy some Crunchies.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00LAUGHTER
0:37:00 > 0:37:01Some Crunchies!
0:37:01 > 0:37:05Finally, they make it past the mayhem to reach the checkpoint.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Hey, Hugh, David, Reggie and Michaela, we have rejoined,
0:37:09 > 0:37:11so the convoy is rejoined.
0:37:11 > 0:37:15- Oh, man, that was stressful, wasn't it?- Yeah.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18# Uganda, Uganda, here we come! #
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- Let's go.- Let's go.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23- How are you?- Fine, thank you.
0:37:23 > 0:37:27- Good.- He's quite serious, so this is not the banter window.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30Do I smile or neutral face?
0:37:30 > 0:37:31- Smile.- Cool.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33This is my Ugandan smile.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51I feel like we've just been driving, which is, you know, it's a convoy,
0:37:51 > 0:37:54- that's the point, but I'm almost like...- "We"?
0:37:54 > 0:37:55"We've" just been driving?
0:37:55 > 0:37:57- You know, we've just been... - Who's this "We"?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59OK, we've just been in a car, OK?
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Yeah, that's better.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04Tomorrow it's a short drive to do something that we came here to do...
0:38:04 > 0:38:07- Exactly.- ..which is deliver bikes, which is going to be amazing.
0:38:07 > 0:38:08Yeah, really amazing.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11And the truck is right in my rear-view, which is great.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14With trucks in tow, ten hours after they left,
0:38:14 > 0:38:17the convoy finally arrives in Tororo.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21You all right, you hanging in there, Hugh?
0:38:21 > 0:38:24Yeah, I'm fine. We're here.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26- We made it.- Wherever "here" is, we're here.
0:38:26 > 0:38:2911 hours. I'm knackered. Are you knackered?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31- Hi!- Hello!
0:38:32 > 0:38:36I'm just not used to getting up at five. The driving is insane.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39Trying to follow the trucks, the crazy roads,
0:38:39 > 0:38:40and then you stop...
0:38:41 > 0:38:45..and you have this ludicrously intense emotional experience.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50I'm usually quite calm when I'm driving.
0:38:50 > 0:38:52Even if something...
0:38:52 > 0:38:56frightening is happening, I have a kind of... I'm a silent screamer,
0:38:56 > 0:38:59and I've never driven anywhere that, like,
0:38:59 > 0:39:02literally four-year-old children kind of wander about
0:39:02 > 0:39:04and weave between the traffic.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06In short...
0:39:06 > 0:39:11probably in the top five most intense experiences of my life.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25MUSIC: Crawl by Gabriel Garzon-Montano
0:39:36 > 0:39:38THEY SING ALONG
0:39:39 > 0:39:43Today, 500km after the last delivery,
0:39:43 > 0:39:45they're about to make their second drop - the bikes.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47We're not just visiting something
0:39:47 > 0:39:49going, "Oh, look how wonderful Comic Relief is."
0:39:49 > 0:39:52We're actually delivering supplies like we did in Kibera,
0:39:52 > 0:39:54- which is really satisfying.- Yeah.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56This is Tororo District.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58Rural farming country.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02Off the main road, villages are spread out,
0:40:02 > 0:40:04joined together by rough dirt pathways.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Here, bikes are invaluable -
0:40:06 > 0:40:09but they're in short supply.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11- How are you on a bike? - I'm brilliant on a bike.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14- I'm a cyclist, mate. - Oh, yeah, so you ride around London?
0:40:14 > 0:40:18- You are dealing with a real G. I'm a pro.- Really?- I AM a cyclist.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23The bikes are being delivered to a Comic Relief funded organisation,
0:40:23 > 0:40:25Kadama Widows Association.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28Look, look, they're dancing to welcome us.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31And they've arranged a traditional local greeting.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35THEY SING AND DRUM
0:40:37 > 0:40:39They love you! They love you, Russell!
0:40:43 > 0:40:46The bikes are going to volunteer community workers
0:40:46 > 0:40:48trained with the help of Comic Relief money.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52They look after more than 10,000 families in the area.
0:40:52 > 0:40:53Careful, Lucy.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55If you touch me, you'll reignite me, baby girl!
0:40:55 > 0:40:58Executive director Lucy Athieno is in charge.
0:40:58 > 0:40:59Thank you very much for coming.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01- You are very welcome. - Thanks for inviting us.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03The people are right there. They are very excited,
0:41:03 > 0:41:06- waiting for the bicycles.- Hello! Hi!
0:41:06 > 0:41:09- So these are the guys that are going to get the bicycles?- Yes.
0:41:09 > 0:41:10- Fantastic.- Hello!
0:41:10 > 0:41:13THEY ULULATE
0:41:15 > 0:41:16We have bikes.
0:41:25 > 0:41:26Amazing.
0:41:26 > 0:41:27- Tabatha.- Tabatha!
0:41:35 > 0:41:39From delivery vehicles to taxis, and even as ambulances,
0:41:39 > 0:41:42these bikes are far more than just a way of getting around.
0:41:43 > 0:41:48Volunteer community worker Beatrice looks after 64 families,
0:41:48 > 0:41:51some of them as far as 25km from her home.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54- Lovely to meet you. - Who do you tend to work with?
0:42:04 > 0:42:05If you don't mind, is it possible to
0:42:05 > 0:42:07maybe spend the rest of the day with you?
0:42:07 > 0:42:10- Would that be all right? - Yes, it's OK.- You got a bike, right?
0:42:10 > 0:42:13- Yes.- Yeah, OK, so maybe we'll ride with you a little bit. Who knows?
0:42:13 > 0:42:17- Are you good? Are you a good rider? - Yes. You cannot beat me!- OK!
0:42:17 > 0:42:19I'll show you.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23# Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle... #
0:42:23 > 0:42:25Leaving Russell in charge...
0:42:25 > 0:42:26That's what I'm talking about.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29- See you at eight. - HE ULULATES
0:42:29 > 0:42:31..Reggie and Michaela head off to see the difference
0:42:31 > 0:42:33a bike will make to Beatrice's life.
0:42:33 > 0:42:37- # I want to ride my bicycle... # - Start on this foot.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39- Start with this foot. - Oh, this one?- Yeah.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41- Go. There we go. There we go.- Whoo!
0:42:41 > 0:42:44- Yay!- Oh, God, I've got to catch up.
0:42:44 > 0:42:47- Come on!- Come on, Beatrice. Let's do it.
0:42:47 > 0:42:52# I want to ride my bicycle... #
0:42:52 > 0:42:56Until now, Beatrice made this four-hour journey
0:42:56 > 0:42:57every other day by foot.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00- Beatrice, you can slow down now. - BELL RINGS
0:43:00 > 0:43:01Slow down, Beatrice!
0:43:02 > 0:43:04For the last three years,
0:43:04 > 0:43:06she's been supporting a family of children living alone
0:43:06 > 0:43:09since the death of their mother.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13Jambo, hello. She's taking care of that one.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18We have Josephine, I have Dominique, then I have Susan.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Hello, Susan. Susan here is in charge of all of her siblings.
0:43:21 > 0:43:23- She's the eldest.- Yes.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25Are we actually stood in front of home?
0:43:25 > 0:43:26Is this is where they live?
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- This is where they live. - Can we see?- Yes.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31- THEY SPEAK OWN LANGUAGE - Thank you.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38- Beatrice, is this is where they would sleep?- Yes.
0:43:44 > 0:43:48- What's that? - It's a book. It's like maths.
0:43:48 > 0:43:50So Susan ensures that they go to school everyday.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52Yes. They go to school.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54SHE SPEAKS OWN LANGUAGE
0:44:17 > 0:44:19They've got a proper bed, but they're not sleeping on it.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22No, they don't sleep there. For them, they sleep here.
0:44:32 > 0:44:34Right.
0:44:42 > 0:44:44So she's been looking after her siblings for three years alone?
0:44:44 > 0:44:47- Yes.- And she's 15?
0:44:47 > 0:44:48Mm, she's 15.
0:44:49 > 0:44:51That's a lot for a 15-year-old, isn't it?
0:44:51 > 0:44:53- 12-year-old then.- Yeah... Yeah.
0:44:53 > 0:44:5512, starting then. Wow.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05Susan and Florence have had to learn to grow what they can to survive.
0:45:08 > 0:45:10Is that right?
0:45:10 > 0:45:12No? What's wrong with the way I'm doing it?
0:45:12 > 0:45:15When they need help, Beatrice is there to buy them seeds.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19OK, then a space. OK.
0:45:19 > 0:45:20She's there to watch over them.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25And she's there to give them support and counselling.
0:45:29 > 0:45:30I like this.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32- I think Beatrice is incredible. - Yeah.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35The time that she takes and invests into this family,
0:45:35 > 0:45:37and she's got three kids of her own, is mad.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40The thing that I think will stay with me from today
0:45:40 > 0:45:42is the fact that if every one of those bicycles
0:45:42 > 0:45:44represents a Beatrice,
0:45:44 > 0:45:47you can only imagine how many people are being helped
0:45:47 > 0:45:49and, believe it or not, it only takes 50 quid
0:45:49 > 0:45:50to train a Beatrice, right?
0:45:50 > 0:45:53So you guys can actually help.
0:45:53 > 0:45:55All that you need to do is get involved
0:45:55 > 0:45:56and give, and there's two lots of money
0:45:56 > 0:46:00- that you can send right now, right? - Yes, it's ten or 20 quid.
0:46:00 > 0:46:01That's it.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04So all you need to do is use that number on the screen right
0:46:04 > 0:46:06now and it will definitely help.
0:46:06 > 0:46:09- Three of you - that's your mum, your mate, your uncle...- Yeah.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12..and she's trained. That's another trained Beatrice.
0:46:12 > 0:46:13That's maths.
0:46:17 > 0:46:18LAUGHTER
0:46:18 > 0:46:20High five. Don't be shy.
0:46:21 > 0:46:22She's so chill.
0:46:23 > 0:46:26Beatrice, thank you. Can I have a cuddle?
0:46:26 > 0:46:27- Yeah.- Can I have a cuddle?
0:46:27 > 0:46:29LAUGHTER
0:46:29 > 0:46:31Wow!
0:46:31 > 0:46:33It is a wonderful day to me.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37- It is a wonderful day for us to have met you.- Yes.
0:46:37 > 0:46:39- Thank you so much, OK?- Yes.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41- Bye-bye.- Bye.
0:46:41 > 0:46:43Go on, Susan.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46- She can do it!- She's gone.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57Whilst Michaela and Reggie have been delivering the bikes,
0:46:57 > 0:47:02David and Hugh have gone 60km ahead to St Joseph Nagongera Primary,
0:47:02 > 0:47:05the location of tomorrow's final delivery, the mosquito nets.
0:47:05 > 0:47:06ALL CLAP IN TIME
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Oh, wow, look. Oh, my goodness!
0:47:09 > 0:47:12The school is at the heart of a community
0:47:12 > 0:47:15hard hit by Africa's biggest killer - malaria.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20- How long is this going to go on for?- I don't know!
0:47:20 > 0:47:23- When do we stop? I don't know. - Thank you very much.
0:47:23 > 0:47:25- Hello.- Oh, that's how you do it.
0:47:25 > 0:47:26- Are you John?- I'm John Charles.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Hello, I'm David. Very nice to meet you.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32- How are you?- Quite fine.- Excellent.
0:47:34 > 0:47:38John Charles was born nearby and has been a teacher for 30 years.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43Explain to us some of the problems with running this school.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45What problems do you face?
0:48:00 > 0:48:02The answer is so simple, isn't it?
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Which is to get a net.
0:48:04 > 0:48:08Yeah. In fact, nets are very expensive.
0:48:08 > 0:48:11Are they? How much does a net cost?
0:48:11 > 0:48:13A net should be about 30,000.
0:48:13 > 0:48:15- That's, like,- 7. About 7.
0:48:15 > 0:48:18That's expensive. For here, that's expensive, isn't it?
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Very expensive. Most people are poor.
0:48:20 > 0:48:24- Yes.- And that's why most people die. - Yes, of course.
0:48:25 > 0:48:28And that's what tomorrow's delivery should change.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31By giving each of the 1,000 students and their families
0:48:31 > 0:48:33all the nets they need.
0:48:35 > 0:48:39- Quite a lot of tricks coming on there.- Yeah.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41Hugh! Hugh, knock it!
0:48:41 > 0:48:42- Where are you?!- Knock it!
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Oh, he's got it again!
0:48:47 > 0:48:51Beautiful, beautiful. He's still got it, he's still got it.
0:48:51 > 0:48:53- Carry on being the dinosaur. - OK, here we go.- Dinosaur.
0:48:55 > 0:48:56Argh!
0:48:56 > 0:48:58LAUGHTER
0:49:14 > 0:49:16HE SCREECHES
0:49:20 > 0:49:23The figures around malaria are terrifying.
0:49:23 > 0:49:28The disease kills more than 1,000 people in Africa every day.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30One child dies every two minutes.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34In the garden of his home,
0:49:34 > 0:49:37John Charles shows how malaria has devastated his own family.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47- OK.- So who is buried here?
0:49:47 > 0:49:51This is my child.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53How old was she?
0:49:53 > 0:49:57- By then, she was two years old.- OK.
0:49:57 > 0:49:58OK.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03This is my mother's grave.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05- OK.- Died of malaria.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08This was my child's grave.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12Also died when she was at nursery school.
0:50:12 > 0:50:16This is another child of mine who died.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20- Wow.- So four children have died of malaria?
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Four children. One, two, three...four.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28- I'm sorry.- Hmm.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31HE SOBS
0:50:37 > 0:50:39OK.
0:50:49 > 0:50:52It is all as a result of malaria.
0:50:52 > 0:50:55Yeah. That's why we need the nets.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Yeah.
0:50:59 > 0:51:02Mother, child, child, child,
0:51:02 > 0:51:05another child over there.
0:51:05 > 0:51:09These are the family members that John Charles has lost to malaria.
0:51:09 > 0:51:11With your help, he and everyone else
0:51:11 > 0:51:16who lives in this area might not lose any more, so please give.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Just £10 will buy four mosquito nets
0:51:24 > 0:51:27which could protect a whole family
0:51:27 > 0:51:29from this terrible disease.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40Please give what you can.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52- Do you want me to drive?- I'm OK.
0:51:53 > 0:51:58It's our last day. I think it might be the most exciting day yet.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07With just one truck remaining,
0:52:07 > 0:52:11the Red Nose convoy's mission is almost at an end.
0:52:11 > 0:52:16After 700km from Nairobi, through the Great Rift Valley,
0:52:16 > 0:52:18over the Western Highlands
0:52:18 > 0:52:21and across the border,
0:52:21 > 0:52:25they are heading for their final stop of Nagongera in eastern Uganda.
0:52:26 > 0:52:28Only the mosquito nets are left
0:52:28 > 0:52:31and in this part of the world,
0:52:31 > 0:52:32they are essential.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35Right, so I am buzzing today, Katy.
0:52:35 > 0:52:37We are delivering malaria nets.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40I think "buzzing" is the operative word.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42It is. We're going to stop buzzing,
0:52:42 > 0:52:46and it's perhaps the simplest bit of equipment that we've delivered.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57With 8,000 nets on the truck,
0:52:57 > 0:53:01there are enough not only for every child,
0:53:01 > 0:53:04teacher and their families at the school,
0:53:04 > 0:53:06but for thousands more in the community too.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14- Hello. Nice to see you. How are you? - This is Michaela, this is Reg.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17I've heard a lot about you, John. Pleasure to meet you, sir.
0:53:17 > 0:53:20How are you doing? Very nice to meet you.
0:53:20 > 0:53:22Nice to meet you.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25Stella Bakeera from Malaria Consortium
0:53:25 > 0:53:27is in charge of distribution.
0:53:27 > 0:53:29Now, what's going to happen,
0:53:29 > 0:53:32we are going to ask all the people where they registered
0:53:32 > 0:53:34to go to their particular villages.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36If you came from...
0:53:36 > 0:53:38Each village in the school's catchment area
0:53:38 > 0:53:41has a desk and a register to make sure every family receives
0:53:41 > 0:53:44the correct number of nets.
0:53:44 > 0:53:48This huge consignment will serve 12 different communities.
0:53:53 > 0:53:57Is it really heavy? You look really out of breath.
0:53:59 > 0:54:02Someone help me!
0:54:04 > 0:54:07You'd think they'd be quite light, mosquito nets,
0:54:07 > 0:54:09but not when they come in a thousand per packet.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12Quite sweaty.
0:54:12 > 0:54:14I've decided to help out on the desk
0:54:14 > 0:54:16with the biggest village coming through it
0:54:16 > 0:54:20and at the moment, this queue just doesn't seem to be shrinking.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22It's getting bigger and bigger but I'm kind of glad I'm on this desk
0:54:22 > 0:54:27because if my little counting and hand-out part of this operation
0:54:27 > 0:54:28is actually worth anything,
0:54:28 > 0:54:31I'm proud to be a part of it, to be honest.
0:54:31 > 0:54:34You were first in the queue. Very British.
0:54:34 > 0:54:35Very British!
0:54:38 > 0:54:40Where has everybody else gone?
0:54:42 > 0:54:44With the heavy lifting?
0:54:46 > 0:54:48Since Comic Relief began,
0:54:48 > 0:54:50your money has helped distribute
0:54:50 > 0:54:52more than 4 million nets across Africa.
0:54:52 > 0:54:53Mamma, give me some fist.
0:54:53 > 0:54:56- Yes.- High five. Let's get you a net.
0:54:56 > 0:55:00It's been my pleasure as area manager to assist you.
0:55:01 > 0:55:03- Can I have a net? - You can't have a net.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05- Why?- Because there will be people who want a net
0:55:05 > 0:55:07and they haven't got a net, and you haven't got a ticket.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10- Where is your ticket?- Here is my ticket.- That's not a ticket.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13That's a wrapper from a water bottle. That's not a ticket.
0:55:13 > 0:55:15- Go away.- OK, I promise you, my name's on the list,
0:55:15 > 0:55:17- if you just check it. - Why is your name on the list?
0:55:17 > 0:55:19You live in Hampstead.
0:55:19 > 0:55:23In my country, in London, now, it's snowing.
0:55:23 > 0:55:25You know snow? Snow.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27There's no malaria in Hampstead.
0:55:27 > 0:55:29There's ponds in Hampstead.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Ponds, there are - not malarial ponds.
0:55:31 > 0:55:33- Are they not? - Men swim in the swimming ponds.
0:55:33 > 0:55:35Yeah, that's why they are filthy.
0:55:35 > 0:55:37Don't come back.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39- Off you go.- It's unbelievable.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42Thank you.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50There's something really special about the simplicity of today,
0:55:50 > 0:55:54to place the nets into the hands of the people that need them most.
0:55:54 > 0:55:56- No problem.- Thank you.- Take care.
0:55:56 > 0:55:59It's huge for me.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01- OK, take it. You have it? - OK.- All right.
0:56:01 > 0:56:05I think it's incredible that we've just given out mosquito nets
0:56:05 > 0:56:09and I like to think that's like, I don't know,
0:56:09 > 0:56:11some amount of kids passing their exams
0:56:11 > 0:56:13because they didn't get malaria
0:56:13 > 0:56:15and they were able to go to school every day.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19It's just rudimentary for them.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22It's like, great, we've got this now, give it to me,
0:56:22 > 0:56:25now I'll move on and I'll try and save my children.
0:56:26 > 0:56:31Next time I'm whingeing because my skinny latte isn't warm enough,
0:56:31 > 0:56:34I think a little voice will go, "Shut up, you snivelling idiot."
0:56:36 > 0:56:39- Come on, let's have a really embarrassing group hug.- Yeah!
0:56:39 > 0:56:40There we go.
0:56:40 > 0:56:42- Well done.- This is too close.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45I don't like it, I don't like it!
0:56:48 > 0:56:50It's been an incredible journey...
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Slowly, slowly...
0:56:52 > 0:56:57..from meeting midwifes delivering babies in Kibera,
0:56:57 > 0:57:01to the mentor mothers giving support to women living with HIV...
0:57:01 > 0:57:02Yes!
0:57:05 > 0:57:07..and to the amazing community workers
0:57:07 > 0:57:10who can now help more people more often.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14- Beatrice, you can slow down now. - BELL RINGS
0:57:14 > 0:57:17After six days and 700km,
0:57:17 > 0:57:20they've finally completed all the deliveries.
0:57:20 > 0:57:21Ohh!
0:57:24 > 0:57:26Bikes, beds and nets.
0:57:26 > 0:57:30The Red Nose convoy has delivered the lot, and that is thanks to you,
0:57:30 > 0:57:33but Red Nose Day money helps those that need it most
0:57:33 > 0:57:37in countless other ways too, not just here in Africa, also in the UK.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39So if you've got a few quid to spare
0:57:39 > 0:57:42and you want to make the next Red Nose delivery as life-changing
0:57:42 > 0:57:44as this one has been,
0:57:44 > 0:57:49do please donate, and the details on how you can do that are below.
0:57:49 > 0:57:50Thank you.
0:57:53 > 0:57:56One, two, three...
0:57:56 > 0:57:59ALL SIGH
0:58:11 > 0:58:13I feel like a flower.
0:58:13 > 0:58:15It's got multiple purposes.
0:58:15 > 0:58:17You can pretend it's a red nose,
0:58:17 > 0:58:19be like a boxer.