Our Fancy Dress Swim made the Against Malaria News! Here’s the link:
http://blog.againstmalaria.com/post/2009/08/17/Making-a-splash-in-style.aspx Making a splash in style….
You can click on the link on the page that opens with the above link and see some of the pictures. There’s also a short video on YouTube which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddtU1OCxhk.
Come join ONE Santa Monica
in the Santa Monica July 4th Parade
& Fancy Dress Swim Against Malaria
Help eradicate malaria. How?
Join the Church in Ocean Park and ONE Santa Monica for an Independence Day
parade and Fancy Dress Swim! Put on your Sunday finest, parade down Main Street,
over to the beach and go swimming!
July 4 9:00 am for parade, 11:30 am for Fancy Dress Swim
Yes, participants really will be wearing suits and dresses and wading into the
Pacific but fear not, this fanciful event involves more of a dip than an actual swim.
Picture the Polar Bear Plunge in mid-summer with clothes!
Each five dollars donated buys a mosquito bed net and protects a child from
contracting malaria. Coordinator Herley Jim Bowling says “Malaria is one of the
planet’s most deadly diseases, killing the equivalent of seven jumbo jets full of
children daily. With World Swim Against Malaria, 100% of donations received go to
purchasing bed nets.” http://www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com/OneSantaMonica
Meet for the parade in front of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium at least by 9
AM with downloaded signed waiver https://oceanpark.net/opa/content/parade/. The
parade lines up on Main north of Pico and starts at 9:30. Or meet us at the beach at
the end of the parade, parking lot 5, southern-most of Santa Monica Beach.
Even if you can’t attend, by donating $5 you buy 1 malaria net for a child’s bed
and save a life.
Sponsors include: The Dream Project, Holy Guacamole, The Velvet Gypsy,
and Church in Ocean Park.
Contact: Herley Jim, herleyjim@yahoo.com or 310-496-2124 cell.
We had a fine time wearing our finery to help prevent malaria!
OCEANSIDE: Mother’s Day swim raises money to help fight malaria : North County Times http://alturl.com/58ic
Sunday, May 10, is the official opening of Fancy Dress Swim Against Malaria season! (World Malaria Day was April 25.) Join us for a fun Mother’s Day Fancy Dress Swim Against Malaria organized by ONE San Diego County, 4 PM at the Oceanside Pier:
http://www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com/OneSanDiegoCounty.
Two more Fancy Dress Swims are being planned: One right after the 3rd Annual Santa Monica 4th of July Parade which ends conveniently at the beach; the other will be at Culver City Municipal Plunge, date TBA. If you’d like to sponsor us, join us, and spread the word, that would be great! The 4th of July swim is linked to the Mother’s Day swim. You can find the link on the Mother’s Day page or just go here (but check out both): http://www.WorldSwimAgainstMalaria.com/OneSantaMonicaYou can sponsor on either page.
If you want to join us you can also sign up at ONE.org – the campaign to Make Poverty History – and get directions and more updates:
http://www.one.org/event/GeneralEvent/915. To carpool contact herleyjim@yahoo.com.
Herley Jim Bowling
ONE Santa Monica
Fight chronic hunger, global AIDS, and extreme poverty.
ONE voice -your voice – can make a difference.
Together, acting as ONE, we can change the world.
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Join us for the next Fancy Dress Swim to Make Poverty History on Sunday, July 13, at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica.
We will meet at noon at Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St., Santa Monica 90405, and process to the Pacific Ocean where we will swim in fancy finery, crazy costume, normal swimwear or whatever you choose. If you would like to borrow one of our thrift store gems for the day, it’s easy; we will have them at the Church that day. Invite your friends to enjoy a swim with us!
This event will be the kickoff of our organizing for the rest of 2008 and a chance to enjoy summer and the beach as we tell people about ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History.
The 2008 events planned so far, are:
*Stand Up, October 17;
*AIDS Walk LA, October 19;
*Fancy Dress Fall Ball, October 24;
*ONE Sabbath, TBA;
*World AIDS Day, December 1.
Put July 13 in your calendar and come along. Do something worthwhile by taking that dunk in the ocean you never get around to! Call (310) 399-1631 or email fancy@churchop.org for any and all suggestions or questions. All are welcome!
The Fancy Dress Swim Against Malaria went well and was a lot of fun. Thanks for your support! We’ve raised over $1,500 – over 300 long-lasting insecticidal bed-nets (LLINs) – with money still coming in. The total on the web-page www.worldswimagainstmalaria.com/churchop is lower because that doesn’t include the money raised offline. You can see some of the photos there and here:
A small film crew came to the swim and filmed us and interviewed us about what we were doing. When they’ve finished editing it we’ll have a link.
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Hey our Fancy Dress Swim is up on the ONEBlog right now (October 3 entry) at:
http://www.one.org/blog/2007/10/03/all-dressed-up-and-something-to-do/
Check it out and feel free to make comments or spread the word!
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