Annual Review 2018
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The Virgin 10K<br />
Events 2017-<strong>2018</strong><br />
This year we had our annual Madras Café at<br />
WOMAD, Pallavi Modha organised the Walk for<br />
Women at Virginia Water and we had some great<br />
runners during the Virgin 10K. We also had some<br />
new events this year - a stall at the Diwali Event on<br />
Trafalgar Square and we hosted our exhibition<br />
during the UN International Day of Persons with<br />
Disabilities at the Jain Centre in North London.<br />
At the beginning of December, we also had the<br />
pleasure of receiving Rajagopal, the Founder of Ekta<br />
Parishad. Rajagopal was here to meet organisations<br />
to discuss Jai Jagat 2020, ‘a global campaign for<br />
peace and another way of development.’ For more<br />
info visit www.jaijagat2020.org.<br />
Ellie Kellett, AVI Secretary<br />
It’s great to have a goal to work for if you want to get fitter, and for me personally as<br />
a deeply reluctant runner, raising funds for Action Village India is as motivating as it<br />
gets. Running the Virgin British Sport 10K seemed a fair balance between do-able<br />
and challenging. My lovely friend Des signed up to do the run with me - Des is an<br />
experienced runner but she was just coming out of a course of chemotherapy, so we<br />
figured her worst and my best would be a perfect match. We shared training tips, I<br />
was overwhelmed at the number of friends prepared to pay to see me run and it was<br />
all going smoothly. Until the big day. We left sunny Greenwich at 7am - two hours later<br />
we and a worried bunch of other runners (including a very hot big green pea) were<br />
still stranded in a sweltering DLR train, stuck in the tracks between stations. Finally,<br />
they let us walk down the train lines and a taxi got us all (including big green pea) as<br />
far as Leicester Square. Not a single runner was left at the start line, we were the very<br />
last to join in, but join we did. And when it was all over and we ran over the finish line<br />
the feeling was fabulous. Thanks to all our generous friends, families and Action<br />
Village India, every step Des and I had made would<br />
become a step further for people in India with<br />
disabilities to live with hope and dignity, for rural<br />
girls to have a chance at growing up educated, for<br />
mothers and babies to survive and thrive. Action<br />
Village India is at the heart of making all of this<br />
possible and it is a privilege to be able to support<br />
that. Contact us if you want to join one of our<br />
future fundraising challenges!
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