LSHTM Swim for Malaria

I am going to join the swim for malaria at LSHTM. :) Although no idea how it is going to work. e.g. How long do we need to swim? Is that going to be a time limit or distance limit? How will the fund raising be done? I hope it is not the swimmer's responsibility, :P cause I am really bad at asking people for money. However, if the fund raising is in linear relationship, or exponetial would be even better, to the distance a swimmer manage to achieve, I could be a good one. :)

Annoucement from School ****************************

Please see details of Swim for Malaria at the bottom of this mail and on website http://www.worldswim4malaria.com

LSHTM Swim
The 52 Club has very kindly agreed that the pool may be used for an LSHTM Swim on FRIDAY 2nd DECEMBER.

We need as many people as possible to swim for this excellent cause - please let me know if you would like to swim.

But we also need some people who don't necessarily have to be swimmers to help organise the event. The objective is to make some money for the charity - so we will need to collect sponsorship. We'll also need some organisational help on the day, for example, counting lengths.If you can spare some time to help please let me know by email - then I'll arrange a short meeting of those interested.



SWIM FOR MALARIA'S aim is to have a million people swimming all around the world to raise a substantial amount of money for the fight against malaria.

For every £1 million we raise we will stop 10,000 people from dying, 70% of them children under 5.

We will have a million people swimming if approximately 20,000 people around the world agree to organise a swim where they live for on average 50 people. If a swim has 10 people or 110 people that’s fine too; the number per swim doesn't matter.

How much money you raise is up to you. There is no minimum.

100% of the money we raise through the swims will be used to buy bednets (mosquito nets), specifically long lasting treated nets (LLTNs).

We will ensure the nets are installed over people’s beds by collaborating with a range of organisations that have distribution expertise.

There has never been a global swim involving the swimming community across the world.

We hope you will participate.