Swimmers Claire Roscoe and Amanda Goodwin, along with Alicia Proud-Rabess, finished their charity swims on Lake Malawi in Africa and along Seven Mile Beach, respectively, at the beginning of April, raising more than US$28,000.
“A lifetime’s ambition to swim across Lake Malawi as it’s where I learnt to swim as a child,” Roscoe told the Cayman Compass. “Mightily relieved it’s done. [We] didn’t bump into any crocs, thank God and we’re delighted to have reached our (GoFundMe) target.”
The money will go towards the cost of building a new contraceptive health clinic in the poor suburb of Lilongwe, Malawi, with the remaining funds used to purchase implants and other supplies, which will help reduce unwanted pregnancies among teenage girls in the southeastern African country.
Proud-Rabess, who planned to swim across Lake Malawi with Roscoe and Goodwin, instead took her strokes along Seven Mile Beach, swimming 11 kilometres.
“I took this challenge on to raise money for a great cause, to support women and their independence in Malawi and I’m so happy to say we have surpassed our target,” Proud-Rabess told the Compass.
As of Thursday, 7 April, a total $28,982 was raised.
“This money will change so many lives,” Proud-Rabess. “The swim itself was not easy, this is the furthest I have ever swum and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the supportive team around me, who made it fun, encouraged me at every single water break, and, honestly, kept me going for close to [four hours].
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