Actress and social activist Gul Panag is set to launch a 12-city marathon, A Joy Operate, organised by her NGO Social Outreach Accreditation Software (SOAP), in association with I like My Mom Earth Groundwork (ILMME).

The official announcement for that event will probably be made in Mumbai Saturday, whilst the event itself will consider position Feb 19, 2012.

A Pleasure Run can be a not-for-profit operate, and aims at offering NGOs throughout the country an opportunity to advertise their triggers and also engage corporate support by way of a 10-km run. The cash raised will be utilised to market the cause of education and learning and better health amongst the underprivileged little ones, mentioned a press statement.

The 12 cities wherever the operate is usually to be executed are Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

“The first-of-its-kind, this hard work will include a lot more cities across India with each passing yr. By 2016, ‘A Pleasure Run’ will just take location at the same time in numerous nations around the world,” claimed Sanjay Srinivas, the principal organiser of ‘A Enjoyment Operate 2012′.

Gul, a sporty woman herself, is upbeat with regard to the initiative.

“In the very last several years that I have been linked to charitable work, I have come to understand that we want to make options for informed citizens and corporates to contribute to social obligations. The Enjoyment Run is a single this kind of initiative,” she explained.

Each individual metropolis will operate to spotlight and pass on consciousness about a single healthcare problem like cervical cancer, obesity, hypertension, et al.

A Delight Operate provides a tie-up with Pratham, an NGO that focusses on training. Proceeds from the operate might be donated to this NGO, operate by Nandan Nilekani.

The initiative can even give rise to the Grand Banyan Challenge, a project by ILMME. The challenge is aimed at accumulating used notebooks in the affluent kids, recycled, new notebooks produced and dispersed to the underprivileged college youngsters.