An Indian engineer is cycling all the way from Chennai to Germany’s Hamburg, an 8500 km distance to raise funds for victims of trafficking. Nareshkumar’s mission is to raise awareness to end all forms of modern slavery. He would ride through twelve countries including UAE, Oman, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Austria. Winding up his Indian lap in Mumbai, he would fly to the Gulf.
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I have with me NES Kumar from Chennai who’s on a cycling Expedition from Chennai to Hamburg in Germany in fact it’s going to be a three-month long cycling program and he does this to raise funds to help victims of human trafficking back in India thank you very much for your time exciting Expedition tell us about that um it’s an InterContinental mission where I’ll be cycling 8,500 kmet and I’ll be going through at least 12 different borders but uh the beauty and uh the interest aspect of this Expedition is I’ll be riding a bicycle I named it kindness on a tandem bicycle and uh I’ll be picking up random people along the way to help me on this mission to end slavery and also to raise funds to help the victims of human trafficking name the countries will be pedling through um I’ll be going through the Middle East UAE uh Oman and then uh Iran turkey and then in Europe I’ll be going to at least eight different countries including Greece uh Slovakia Bulgaria Serbia how important is to help this community victims of uh human trafficking it’s such a big problem these days because you know like say humans need three things you know food water and shelter but there’s one more important thing that’s freedom freedom is the highest form of living that a human can have but uh globally it’s a huge um problem 40 million people enslaved and exploited sexually or bonded labor in different ways so now is a high time because we have more slaves now than the intercon the slavery days back then you’re you’re you’re cycling all alone what are you carrying are you prepared to stay somewhere what’s the plan yeah so um I’m completely self-supported all right so I need to be ready for everything and everything so when I go on a bicycle the main thing is the Safety and Security so how will people know where I am so I’ll be carrying GPS it’s going to tell everyone exactly where I am and uh if I’ve stopped and if I’m okay and the next big problem that I have is my bicycle if it’s a puncture what’s going to happen so um I have um I have my tool kit okay I have my puncher kit and I have some spare tubes so this is all to uh fix the bicycle I’m planning to raise about 30 lakhs as a phase one of this project to help um the rescued bonded labors Association where we have rescued a lot of people from bonded labor slavery so this money will be a seed money for them to start something and to start a life living with dignity e
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Yeah this won't end well…
Chalo atleast that's for a decent cause.