US singer & animal rights activist Belinda Carlisle to drive auto rickshaw across India for charity
by The Daily Eye Team February 19 2015, 2:19 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 36 secsGlobal pop icon Belinda Carlisle is to drive an auto rickshaw across north India to raise funds for the Animal People Alliance (APA), which has been working to improve the lives of slavery survivors through economic empowerment and education since 2005. Beginning on 1st March 2015 in Chandigarh, the five-day trip will see the singer drive the three wheeler a distance of 950 km to Udaipur. Belinda aims to raise $25,000 for the Animal People Alliance (APA), a project of The Emancipation Network/Made By Survivors, whose objectives are to train and employ vulnerable youth and women as veterinary technicians, dog handlers and animal caregivers, offering ongoing support and resources to the trainees and to the shelters where they are ultimately employed.