We organised a "24 hour Day and Night continous relay run" in and around Satara city, on 1st January 2017 to kick-start our campaign to achieve our objective over the next 9 months leading up to the event.

Over 650 runners of all ages and abilities from Satara volunteered and ran between 8 am on 1st January till 8 am on 2nd January 2017 , anywhere from a minimum of 15 minutes up to a maximum of 24 hours. Runners ran on pre defined routes , covering almost all the residential as well as business localities of the city and its suburbs, drawing attention of the entire city’s population to our cause.

In fact, 4 of them ran for almost the entire 24 hour period, [ except short breaks for rest and refuellling in between ] clocking up an impressive total of over 400 kms in the process. The overall distance covered by all the participants totaled well over 3000 kms.