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Father and son take up the Oxfam Trailwalker challenge
Updated On: 28 November, 2020 09:10 AM IST | Mumbai | A correspondent
"Nirvighna Maste, all of nine, and his father Pankaj, walk for over 100 km to support Indias most vulnerable "
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In a world altered by COVID-19, the 2020 Oxfam Trailwalker India, a fundraising walkathon has gone virtual. Just last year, thousands of Oxfam trailwalkers had come together from all across India and around the world, to walk for better education, affordable and quality healthcare, gender equality, forest rights, and to end discrimination in the country's underserved states like Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
The special challenge, this year, is to complete either 100 kms or 50 kms in 10 days, virtually! Thousands have already undertaken this challenge including Hindalco employee Pankaj Maste and his nine-year-old son Nirvighna. The plight of workers walking back home soon after lockdown was what motivated them to join the virtual Trailwalker. Pankaj says, "The sight of millions of migrant workers, making their way back to their native villages on foot was horrifying personally to me and my family. It just revealed the inequality we have all taken for granted and done nothing about."
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