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Monday 12 July 2010
From: Mike Fonfe
Received by: Email.
Katie Horn, the Project’s Youngest Fundraiser Mobilises PhonesKatie Horn, aged just 11, who is one of Christina’s young swimmers in her hometown of Marlow, England, heard that Project swimming teachers in Sri Lanka travelled great distances on their own to get to teach women at selected swimming pools. She learned that the local swimming teachers could not easily afford a mobile phone to keep in touch safely with home, so she mobilised her friends and acquaintances to root out those discarded, earlier, but working models to make up a package of working phones, complete with chargers, to be sent out to Sri Lanka at the next opportunity. In addition, Katie has discovered that recycling unwanted mobile phones can also generate hard cash which, in turn, can be used to help pay for more women and teenage girls to be taken into the Project for training as swimming teachers, so she is now enthusiastically scouring the neighbourhood for additional unwanted mobile phones. Katie is part of a great swimming family: her older brother Christian is a Student Swimming Teacher and her younger brother Sam is just learning to swim. The Women’s Swimming Project really appreciates her efforts and we look forward to linking her by text messages to the recipients of the phones just as soon as they are connected up. Thank you Katie, very well done.
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