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Trash the Dress and Fancy Dress Swim: A marriage made in heaven! : ) Did you know you can help end poverty, hunger, and disease in the world while having fun trashing your dress? (See www.trashthedress.com, trashthedress.eu or trashthedressaustralia.com if you’re not familiar with this phenomenon.) It’s not about destroying dresses but about having fun and doing something memorable.) We at Church in Ocean Park have been doing Fancy Dress Swims to Make Poverty History since 2006. We had a great time joining the Mother’s Day Fancy Dress Swim ONE San Diego, May 10, at the Oceanside Pier. You can learn more here:

http://www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com/OneSanDiegoCounty

and here: http://alturl.com/58ic

Our next adventure was the Santa Monica 4th of July Parade with Fancy Dress Swim following:

http://www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com/OneSantaMonica

Check it out and our blog entry on the fun. We made the Against Malaria News. Making a splash in style.

The World Swim Against Malaria site makes it easy create your own swim page and to invite people  to sponsor you by making a contribution to buy treated bed-nets, the most effective way to prevent malaria. Every $5  buys a net. The more contributions you get, the more bed-nets, the fewer people exposed to malaria, the world’s single largest killer of children and pregnant mothers. You can post your picture in your fancy duds and then upload photos of your Fancy Dress Swim or  Trash the Dress or Let’s Get Trashed session after you’ve done it. Those organizing or participating in a Trash the Dress bash could have a group page with individual pages for each bride. For all the fun you have you can help save lives in the process.

If you are in Southern California you can also join us or we can join you in your event. We use the unusual spectacle of going in the ocean, fountain, or pool in fancy dress(es) to encourage people to sign the ONE Declaration to Make Poverty History and  to sponsor us so World Swim Against Malaria can distribute as many bed-nets as possible. (www.one.org for more information on ONE founded by Bono of U2.)

Here are some photos from one of our recent Fancy Swims: