Foreign business chief executive officers (CEOs), including Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam General Director Louis Taylor, are expected to join the cyclists for the last 500km of the tour.
The volunteers will finish their trip by meeting medical staff at the Danang Gynaecology-Obstetrics and Pediatric Hospital on May 26.
The ride was initiated by Newborns Vietnam, a UK charity group established to reduce the infant mortality rate in Southeast Asia and especially Vietnam.
The volunteers previously collected US$135,000 in 18 months, supporting the UK’s Canterbury Christ Church University’s (CCCU) specialist neonatal nurse training programme.
The programme has been approved by the Vietnamese Ministry of Health and will be implemented by the Danang Provincial Health Department in collaboration with Newborns Vietnam.
