The Rickshaw Run.

Hi everyone,

Now I know I normally blog about music but I feel the need to share my thoughts on this incredibly moving, wonderful and hilarious 4 part mini series created by the well known youtubers 'Jacksgap'.
I've been watching their videos for a while now but this piece of work really showed off their talents. If you haven't heard of them or have no idea what I'm talking about, I shall explain.


So the Rickshaw Run is an event where you drive across India in under 3 weeks. Jacksgap did this event to raise as much money as they could for the Teenage Cancer trust. This is one of many reasons why I love this so much, this charity helps so many young people who have cancer, giving them hope and supporting them. It's a great choice of charity because viewers who watch Jacksgap may be suffering from this disease. I also personally think that it is really lovely that everyone involved with this project decided not to just do it for the sake of filming in India, going travelling with friends but did it for a cause that involves their youtube community, it shows their compassion and their motivation to help people. Now if you're still reading, you may think I'm a crazy, obsessed fan girl.... this is not the case, I simply respect them and those who were involved. Baring in mind, the boys who did the Rickshaw Run are around my age group, and I'm currently a 19 year old girl sitting in her pj's having an existential, 'Holy shit i'm 20 this year what am i doing with my life' crisis and these guys are helping people and travelling around India. It's really motivational and has also helped push me to do my travels in the summer,to film/vlog about it and when I get back do more for other people. 

I also loved that everyone who went filmed their experience with their own cameras. It brought about different aspects, views and showed the variety of the experience from each perspective which was really entertaining and refreshing. Due to the Rickshaw Run and how it was filmed by the group, I just bought a ProGo camera for my travels this summer (sorry bank account).

Basically all I can say is these 4 videos made by insanely gifted people need to be watched by as many people as humanly possible, it shows so much wonder of India and the variations of different people, it shows India's beauty and shows that there are lovely, caring people out there, not just the people who thought and created this but the people in India helping them on their way. So I'm going to leave the videos at the bottom and hopefully you'll watch it!

The Jacksgap Teenage Cancer trust campaign ended on December the 17th 2013 and they raised a total of $177,521 which is an amazing amount of money! If you would like to help, support or donate to the Teenage Cancer Trust then click here!

Hope you all liked my different style and topic of my blog today and I'll be blogging soon when I can think of something to write about!

The Rickshaw Run- Part 1
The Rickshaw Run- Part 2
The Rickshaw Run- Part 3
The Richshaw Run- Part 4