{"id":491,"date":"2013-04-17T15:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=491"},"modified":"2013-04-17T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T11:52:12","slug":"two-british-teachers-travel-the-world-to-promote-education-in-a-tuk-tuk-3-wheeled-mission-aims-to-help-the-61million-children-without-access-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Two British teachers travel the world to promote education&#8230;in a tuk-tuk: 3-wheeled mission aims to help the 61million children without access to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two British teachers are travelling around the world powered only by a tiny tuk-tuk\u2019s lawnmower-sized engine in a bid to promote education.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Gough and Rich Sears, from Guildford, Surrey, have already become the first to conquer Africa in their open-sided 395cc rickshaw after setting off from London last August.<\/p>\n<p>They travelled around the UK in the three-wheeler &#8211; which can reach a top speed of 34mph downhill &#8211; before crossing Europe and passing down through the continent.<\/p>\n<p>They are shipping the vehicle to Mumbai in India after reaching the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, from where they will continue across Asia and around the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The pair are aiming to raise awareness of grassroots projects in parts of the world where there is poor access to education.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Sears said: \u2018The world\u2019s leaders have made a commitment to achieving universal primary education by 2015 but, despite this pledge, over 61 million primary-aged children worldwide still lack access to any form of education.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The pair have been visiting schools along the route to assess needs and invite sponsors though their charity Tuk-Tuk Travels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British teachers are travelling around the world powered only by a tiny tuk-tuk\u2019s lawnmower-sized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-daily-news","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}