The aim of this adventure is to have a group of participants from around the globe, travel across India driving an auto rickshaw. Each rickshaw has 3 participants and they have to navigate themselves and take turns to drive the rickshaws. Whilst on route discovering India and seeing various Sewa projects. Rickshaw Run 2023 will see the 108 Rickshaw Run self-funded participants from around the world will be travelling from Chitrakoot to Kutch in 36 Rickshaws covering over 2000km in 12 days, raising funds and awareness for this noble project in December 2023.
The Sewa UK Rickshaw Run 2023 (RR23) will be supporting the refurbishment of a dental unit at Arogyadham in Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, India. The facility provides FREE or very affordable cleft and palate surgery to support the 500 surrounding villages. The building will have 6 dental surgeries on the 1st floor. On the ground floor, it will have 1 dental surgery, 1 operation theatre and 1 dental lab including waiting areas, offices and washroom facilities.
The operations that take place are life changing for the children and allow them to integrate into normal society without any associated stigma.