What would you do for an education?

As a girl growing up in Mullum I took it for granted that I would be able to go to school and be educated. Being able to read and write are skills that really make a difference to the opportunities available and it is difficult to imagine not being able to do either. But many girls and young women around the world, including in Mumbai, are not so fortunate.

The other day I heard about an Australian ultra-marathon runner, Pat Farmer, who is raising funds to support girls acquire an education in India.

He's crazy enough to run around seventy kilometres each day, intending to cross India from Kanyakumari – the southern tip of India where the three seas meet and the sacred site where Gandhi’s ashes were kept – to finish at Srinagar in Kashmir. It's a journey of around 4600 kilometres.

All the funds raised will go to the KC Mahindra Education Trust.