VOL.2006.011
Date : 22 Jan 2K6

Gulf Foster A Child Car Drive
January 22, 2006 : Mumbai

Sunday, January 22, 2006 will go down as a memorable day in the lives of some of Mumbai’s orphaned children who were part of the Gulf Foster A Child Car Drive. Surely, the 50-odd kids who drove from Mumbai to Khandala along with 39 families, who ‘adopted’ them for just a day, had a whale of a time, perhaps for the first time venturing out to the hill station.

Organisers Sportscraft certainly provided the perfect drive. Unlike the previous years, when participants would be seen driving around in circles around the streets of Mumbai, this drive had the trapping of a rally without the rigors of it. After Alain Dujean, Vice President Gulf Oil International, flagged off the 39 vehicles from Our Lady’s Home, the orphanage in central Mumbai, it was a guessing game all the way till the finish at Duke’s Retreat in Khandala. While speed was not a factor, the crew’s general knowledge and navigational capabilities was what mattered. Participants were asked simple questions on varied subjects from politics to sport to entertainment at the various time controls on the way to Khandala. And best among them was Jagjeet Singh and his crew of Dilraj Kaur (navigator), Twinkle and Sunny. The foursome put their heads together to read the course perfectly and answer questions well to come out trumps.

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