Three Indian women, Meenakshi Arvind, 45 from Coimbatore, Priya Rajpal, 55 from Mumbai and Mookambika, 38 from Pollachi embarked on a 70 day road trip from Coimbatore to London in a Tata Hexa Vehicle crossing 24 countries. The expedition will cover 24,000 km and plan to reach London on June 5th, hoist the Indian flag at HC in the evening.
On completion, the team will fly back to India while the SUV will be shipped and returned to sponsor Tata Motors Limited. Organisers said that the total cost of the trip is around INR 60 lakh.
Their mission is celebrating the 70th year of India's Independence and to promote the cause of ‘Rotary India Literacy Mission’, spreading awareness about women’s empowerment and literacy. Asha Kiran is a world literacy mission initiative of Charity organisation Rotary for Child Development with the purpose of sending 100,000 children back to School.
Representatives from the UK Women Network, are planning to meet the three ladies on June 5th at the High Commission and have plans to drive up to Dover in the morning to cheer them as they land on UK soil. An informal lunch or Dinner on 10th June to honour and present them with some funds for their cause.
The route planned so far are: Coimbatore, Chennai, Pondicherry, Andhra, Bhuvaneshwar, Kolkata, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Myanmar, China, Kyrgzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and London.
