Everyone enjoys themselves. Entries are restricted to 55 vehicles. Each vehicle's team of six must raise as much money as they can to hold a place in the yearly event. There is a minimum sum of eighty thousand shillings that must be raised to qualify in addition to a further twenty thousand entry charge. Each team requests sponsorship from contacts, business associates and friends.
Some cars raise well over one million shillings How much money has been raised so far.
Since 1989 the year of the first Rhino Charge, Rhino Ark has raised over 100 million shillings in funds and in kind. Nearly 90 million has been raised by the Rhino Charge. The first Rhino Charge raised 250,000 shillings. Today this is less than the average that each car puts up. By 1994 - the total first five years of Charges raised 17.4 million shillings.