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Rickshaw
RuNZ is three Kiwi blokes entering what could be a highly dangerous event to
raise funds for some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The Rickshaw Run will have us driving a three wheeled auto-rickshaw down the entire length of the Indian subcontinent against 45 other teams from around the globe. It starts on January 1, 2010 in Pokhara, central , and ends 16 days later on the coast in in the southern most Indian state of Kerala.
This could be a nightmare! With minimal motorbike experience and zero mechanical skills, we are going to drive some 4,500 kilometres in a machine marginally more powerful, and undoubtedly less reliable, than Wal’s ride-on lawnmower, through terrain that ranges from the highest mountain range in the world through impoverished deserts and teaming cities to dense jungle and winding coconut coasts.
WHO FOR?: Raising funds for Maiti Nepal, which offers help, support, protection and rehabilitation to Nepali girls and women who have been victims of domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child prostitution, child labour and various forms of exploitation and torture. Some of these girls who have been sold off to work as sex slaves are as young as six and seven. Maiti also operates nine intervention outposts on the Nepal/India border to rescue potential victims before they taken to places like Mumbai's notorious Kamathipura district, considered the largest and most concentrated red-light district in the world. Last year Maiti saved 1,747 children and women through border interventions.
See The Day My God Died, a documentary about trafficking in girls from across the border to that features Maiti . It is narrated by Tim Robbins.
