Her Majesty Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck awards khadar to a runner at the clock tower square in Thimphu
Jogging along the east-west highway through mixed vegetation and temperate and cold climates and scaling five dizzying mountain passes, 12 Tara-thon runners entered the Thimphu clock tower on January 24 showered with applauds from the capital’s residents. They spanned more than 560 kilometres in 35 days including five rest days.
Eighteen other runners from the Paro College of Education joined them at Semtokha. Sherubtse college had 10 fund raisers and five were from Paro College of Education spread across the country. Together they raised Nu 618,196 through donations from the four dzongkhags they ran past and the numerous villages, schools, shops and individual donors along the way. The money will go into Tarayana’s endowment scholarship programme, which sponsors children from very poor families to attend schools in Bhutan.
