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Managing the entire buying process for you to support charities. Using high quality professional suppliers, pre-sale vehicle inspections, and ensuring spare parts available.
We provide a stress-free buying experience, following ethical principles.
After having difficulties with cars for our own charity work, we realised that sourcing reliable vehicles can be a huge drain for projects… so we set about fixing this problem.
This led to the evolution of West Africa 4X4.
Case studies are welcomed to help understand, learn, and share from actual experiences.
A natural focus on customers and a genuine wish to get the best solution and value has always been our goal, as is clear in our testimonials available. We supply brand new tropical spec and quality used vehicles, with full pre-purchase inspections so you can buy with confidence.
With pre-purchase inspections, genuine parts when you need them, servicing support, vehicles engineered to your spec, protective fuel filters, satellite tracking and helping you sell the car when your project has finished.
Buying a car approved by a main dealership has to be the simplest way to buy a top quality car with confidence – fit for Africa.
A transparent off the shelf transaction, on a budget, we are combining maximum quality with the confidence and expectations associated with some of the most trustworthy names the industry.
It minimises exposure for your organisation, saves time and resources, and knowing that both car and dealership are excellent you can confidently expect the car to have a good working life ahead. The cars are in stock and West Africa 4X4 can deliver them to you at a more cost effective rate than arranging it yourself.
Before being presented by a main dealership, all the vehicles offered were carefully chosen to start with and have passed a thorough test and servicing procedure. Looking great and knowing they are mechanically sound, you really can just choose the one you want and place your order. We will then secure it for you, sort the paperwork, the shipping, and have them delivered to West Africa.
West Africa 4X4 is committed to working at the highest ethical and quality standards and the principal of having vehicles thoroughly examined means we don’t expect unwelcome surprises later on. When you ‘Browse all vehicles’ you will see others professionally vetted and scored – note that we only offer the ones that scored 5/5 mechanically, but for peace of mind and about $150 you are welcome to have a vehicle retested.
Regarding commercial vehicles the procedure is slightly different by providing a final vetting (to the same standards) as part of the purchase procedure.
Philip Dean is British with 14 years of continued service in Africa.
Philip founded the charity St George Foundation in 2004 to rescue homeless war orphans in Sierra Leone, and that has gone on to home over 1500 children.
Having found vehicle ownership a real struggle and witnessed it as a drain on vital resources of other similar charities and projects, Philip has turned his thoughts to finding a more cost effective and reliable way for the smaller and medium sized projects to operate vehicles.
Philip continues his work for children in Sierra Leone through St George Foundation.
As one of 6 children Philip was raised in a military naval family with a father away much of the time and a strong maternal and Christian influence at home. Living mostly in England and some time in Virginia USA, Philip was educated at an English boarding school – Clayesmore (probably the most famous school in England — but as a TV setting… the hilarious ‘Only Fools and Horses’ episode when cleaning a priceless antique chandelier ends in disaster was filmed there!).
But on a serious note, it was a fantastic school that developed characteristics appreciating everyone as individuals and a confidence to act — clearly seen in the present Head’s welcome message.
This approach was adopted much later when Philip started rescuing children in Sierra Leone: not only to guide his own actions, but also to help the children value themselves and others and strive for their best. It was very successful. www.clayesmore.com/about-clayesmore-school/video
After gaining his degree, Philip worked for a while for IBM and then in the cruise line business before losing all his savings on a stock market crash and deciding to start all over again. With just the £600 he had left he started a clothing business and built that up to a turnover of £500,000 per year before a trip to Sierra Leone caused a major change of direction.
In 2004 after a planned one week visit to Sierra Leone he was so shocked at the plight of homeless war orphans it forced him to look at his own Christian faith and really question what his reaction should be. With real trepidation and absolutely no idea of the future this became his personal ‘get out of the boat’ moment. It was like jumping off a cliff in the pitch black and from that moment his life was transformed — but ‘get out of the boat’ moments are now met with a lot more faith!
He founded the charity St George Foundation to rescue homeless war orphans and that has gone on to home over 1500 children and spent over $2,000,000. During Sierra Leone’s Ebola outbreak St George Foundation took a lead role to home Ebola orphans cast out by their communities and was responsible for the care of over 2500 of the 8000 children orphaned by the disease.
Having found vehicle ownership a real struggle and witnessed it as a drain on vital resources of other similar charities and projects Philip turned his thoughts to finding a more cost effective and reliable way for the smaller and medium sized projects to operate vehicles. Raising funds and being responsible for running a project is a significant job, and making the best use of hard won grants or heart given donations is an absolute…he has been there and is passionate about it.
West Africa 4X4 is all about creating a resource that allows that to happen for project vehicles.
Philip lives in England with his wife who he met on a Christian walking holiday. They have a daughter and remain as a family active in their local church.
Philip continues his work for children in Sierra Leone through St George Foundation, and is also working to develop rechargeable heated clothing and sleeping bags for the homeless.
Mike is British with four children. Philip and Mike have known each for over 20 years through a shared gym membership and are from the same village. Over casual conversations about the West Africa 4×4 proposition, Mike could see the real potential as a service to bring a cost effective long term solution to running vehicles for projects — a win win for everyone concerned from suppliers to final consumers.
Having sold his previous business, Mike has come out of retirement for West Africa 4×4. Mike brings a desire to ensure customers’ investments are cost effective and deliver long-term value.
Mike acquired valuable experience over his working life running prestigious government projects both in the UK and overseas. His insight running a big business is being brought to West Africa 4×4 as well as sharing the workload as the business develops.
Mike didn’t always have it easy as a youngster but remembers that there were people that advised him and gave him a lift up in his own life. This had an influence on Mike’s own thinking and he has spent a great deal of effort looking after other people in return and giving others a hand up along the way.
Mike is an engineer by trade and has run his own businesses for over thirty years and managed hundreds of employees working on major projects around the world and been involved with some major government contracts. Although it was not made a big issue of, these businesses have been charitable in their approach and given tens of thousands of pounds to projects over the years such as tsunami, supplying water to communities and building infrastructure so people can lead better lives. All this was high intensity and Mike has sold off his last business and officially retired.
Mike’s business experience is being brought into West Africa 4X4 to help bring it to a place strategically that it can provide a quality service for the long term.
The simplest way to buy vehicles fit for Africa but fit for the future with Carbon offset as standard.
In fact JMC manufacture the Ford Territory, the Transit van, the Torneo van, and the Everest SUV all under the Ford badge.
We have chosen to promote just one vehicle for now – their pick up – the JMC VEGUS.
Among all the vehicles we have seen – if you just need a value for money workhorse we think that this is a real contender.
It shares the Puma engine that has been in the Ford Transit for years, the London taxi and the Land Rover Defender to name a few, so the engine is well tested. The Vegus also shares a Ford Transmission system, Ford suspension so this is not an unknown vehicle really.
Comes with a healthy guarantee and we are having the vehicles made to order so we can request the fuel system can work with the local African fuel quality and you will enjoy a fuel system capable of handling the not so great fuels available in Africa.
Foton really stand out as the Chinese brand that seems to have had more than other Chinese brands and successfully trading in Australia, New Zealand, most of South America and Asia.
Surprisingly, they are not that Chinese actually…They use Cummins diesel engines, Getrag Ford make the transmissions, Borg Warner make the transfer case and Dana make the axles.
Owners find them good value for money and they will eventually become a worldwide and well-known brand supplying pick-ups, SUVs, mini buses, trucks, tractors and coaches.
Buy them new and they compare in price to many more well-known brands when second hand and come with a healthy guarantee.
At West Africa 4×4 we are delighted to be able to supply them and see them as a great option if you need a vehicle for a project and you don’t have a huge budget.
At the moment we are working on each order on a case by case system and very happy to provide a live quote for your particular location and need, so feel free to ask the questions you have.
A transparent off the shelf transaction, on a budget, we are combining maximum quality with the confidence and expectations associated with some of the most trustworthy names the industry.
It minimises exposure for your organisation, saves time and resources, and knowing that both car and dealership are excellent you can confidently expect the car to have a good working life ahead. The cars are in stock and West Africa 4X4 can deliver them to you at a more cost effective rate than arranging it yourself.
Before being presented by a main dealership, all the vehicles offered were carefully chosen to start with and have passed a thorough test and servicing procedure. Looking great and knowing they are mechanically sound, you really can just choose the one you want and place your order. We will then secure it for you, sort the paperwork, the shipping, and have them delivered to West Africa.
West Africa 4X4 is committed to working at the highest ethical and quality standards and the principal of having vehicles thoroughly examined means we don’t expect unwelcome surprises later on. When you ‘Browse all vehicles’ you will see others professionally vetted and scored – note that we only offer the ones that scored 5/5 mechanically, but for peace of mind and about $150 you are welcome to have a vehicle retested.
Regarding commercial vehicles the procedure is slightly different by providing a final vetting (to the same standards) as part of the purchase procedure.
