Marathon Running

"When the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

Running as a sport silently works for a larger cause - a cause bigger than the individual athletes, a cause that works for humanity at large. Running, in comparison to other sports, has an air of invincibility about it. Marathons have raised large amounts of money over the years. Individual runners push themselves day after day and raise the performance bar while they do their bit to society by supporting various deserving projects. Charity running has raised about $560 million world over in 2003 alone.

It is this facet of running that a bunch of us are particularly excited about... Though an individual sport, running gives us a channel to touch millions of lives and make a difference.

The marathon runners will aid NGOs Project Plan 100 (Lend-A-Hand and Yuva) and Parikrama in fundraising.

Yuva and Lend-A-Hand

YUVA Foundations is a not-for-profit organization, operating primarily in Bangalore and rural areas (Erode / Tiruppur / Ambathur / Coimbatore / Salem) of Tamil Nadu. 'Education for all' - Yuva's commitment is an ambitious ethic predicated on human dignity.

Lend-A-Hand India is an outcome of an idea nurtured over five years. The motivation behind it is to give back to the community and to confront the challenge of poverty wherever it exists.

Yuva and Lend-A-Hand India work together on Project PLAN 100, to start Basic Rural Technology Centers in 100 high schools by the year 2007 to provide over 20,000 young students a medium of sustainable income.

Parikrma

Parikrma is a not-for-profit organization targetting sheltering and empowering slum dwellers in Bangalore.

Parikrma is a place where dreams of children from slums are harbored. The 730 students in four Parikrma centers at Koramangala, Jayanagar, Sahakarnagar and Nandhini Layout are all slum-dwellers. Rag pickers, housemaids and tea-stall workers till a few months ago, they now lead sheltered lives during school hours and beyond. Parikrma takes responsibility of the end to end development of the kids from the age of five till the kids can earn a living. Their school follows the ICSE curriculum and English as the language of instruction. Average attendance rate is 97% and the drop-out rate is less than 1%.

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Anuradha Muralidharan - muralidharan.anuradha@gmail.com
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