Deepak Shukla

Deepak Shukla decided in his gap year, after finishing at Warwick University and before starting work at Delloite to run the Chicago Marathon for the Trust. He completed it in a very credible 4 hours and 26 minutes and became our first marathon runner, raising hundreds of pounds for us.

Deepak adds “The British landscape for a young Asian male living in London like myself represents a myriad of challenges and opportunities. Having come from feudal India, my family emigrated to the UK in search of a better life. This was some 27 years ago, and now South Asians in the UK occupy some of the top positions in Europe and the wider western world. Given my own roots, and many others like myself, it was to my great surprise as to just how difficult finding a charity to help my fellow Indians in South Asia was. India has the highest rates of malnutrition and infant mortality in the world. The British Asian Trust were not only the most visible charity serving as a conduit to help such underprivileged children, but also the most efficient. Simply put, they are different from any other charity I have encountered. British Asians are continually concerned with Return on Investment, bottom line figures and margins. The British Asian Trust seek to help build the underprivileged entrepreneurs of tomorrow through their B’Yeah programme in Bangladesh, and go further still with their support of Mumbai Mobile Creches. I ran my first marathon in Chicago, the United States aged 23 years old, having just arrived back from South America some 51 days before D-Day. Choosing The British Asian Trust to run for was easy. I know where every £ I raised went, so some might say that my return on investment was ten-fold. And that’s why I sleep so well at night.”