An Australian marathon runner will embark on a 76-day-long-run from Jaisalmer to Meghalaya to raise funds for the education focused initiatives in India. Samantha Gash, a corporate lawyer by profession, said the objective to undertake the challenge of running almost 4,000 kms stretch covering several Indian cities from West to East was to raise funds which would go towards funding education focused initiatives through World Vision's programmes in India.She has run through some of the most extreme and inhospitable locations from deserts in Chile, China, Egypt and Antarctica, to mountains of Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Her Indian challenge would include not a direct run from West to East India but would also include other parts to visit World Vision development programmes in Pauri and Darjeeling. Samantha would be accompanied by her crew of Indians, a Britisher and an American.