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All Women Team Drive a Tata Hexa to Promote Literacy across 24 countries

| | Mar 31, 2017, at 10:38 pm
Kolkata, Mar 31 (IBNS): XPD2470 - A 70 days journey by all women team from Coimbatore to London by Tata Hexa carrying Rotary India Literacy Mission’s message of Total Literacy and Quality Education and raise awareness on Women Empowerment.

Flagged off from Hotel Park Plaza,Ballygunge on Friday, 8:30 am by - Usha Uthup and Shyamashree Sen (District Governor Rotary District 3291) for Kolkata Flag off.

Greetings to you from Rotary Club of Coimbatore Texcity, Team XPD2470 & Rotary India Literacy Mission! The team reached Kolkata on Mar 30.

XPD2470 is a 70-day road journey across 22 countries (24 including India and UK), over 24000 km, in 70 days, and 8 time zones.

This journey will be undertaken in a Tata Hexa Car by an All-Woman Team comprising of

Meenakshi Arvind, A Roadaholic 45 years, Married, Mother of 19 year old daughter Lives in Coimbatore,

Mookambikai Rathinam Age : 38 Single ,mother of an 8 year old daughter and

Priya Rajpal- An explorer on the journey called life, Age : 55 Single, Mother of a 21 year old daughter, which will be flagged off from Coimbatore on Mar 26, 2017 to arrive in London on June 2.

XPD2470 is an initiative of Rotary India Literacy Mission, ROTARY CLUB OF COIMBATORE TEXCITY& ROTARY CLUB OF AAKRUTHI (an All Women Rotary Club) to promote the T-E-A-C-H program of Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) and raise awareness on Women Empowerment.

This journey will raise funds along the way to make this the longest Literacy Charity Drive and aims to spread the message that Rotary India is promoting through its Literacy Mission. The official flag-off took place on March 3rd by our Minister of Human Resource Prakash Javadekar, in Chennai.

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