Younite Foundation holds Sponsored Swim at David Lloyd

By Claire Dukes - 16 October 2017

Charity

On December 2 the Younite Foundation will be holding a sponsored swim to raise funds to pay for clean drinking water for destitute street kids in Kenya this Christmas.

The sponsored swim is open to all who can raise money and can swim unaided for up to 30 minutes each, with slots available to book online at www.younitesponsoredswim.eventbrite.co.uk, for swimming between 12pm and 4pm at the David Lloyd Health and Leisure club in Latham Road, Swindon.

Kenya has had a drought for most of this year and the children there don’t want for toys this Christmas, just for clean drinking water which has become expensive to buy.

Younite Foundation Trustee James Phipps said: “We have raised thousands in the last year for local causes but we all take for granted to have clean drinking water or the ability to swim if we want to, so this Christmas we want to make sure that the street kids in Melon Mission, one of our projects in Kenya, has that basic right to clean water and we would like to thank David Lloyd for allowing us to use their amazing facility to raise these vital funds”.

Commenting on their support, General Manager Jordan McGarvie added: “We are delighted to be able to offer our superb indoor swimming facility to raise these vital funds and it’s fantastic that we can support a charity from Swindon in this way”.

Melon Mission in Nakuru in Kenya has over 450 destitute street children it tries to provide food, water, clothing and an education for but relies solely on donations to run.

The Younite Foundation, a registered charity established in 2016 in Swindon to help young people in Swindon and Wiltshire and two projects in Kenya, has raised over £20,000 this year for Melon Mission.

It’s partnership with Younique Travel Adventures has also helped over 150 volunteers, mainly students, from the Swindon area to go to Melon Mission to help in the last year.

For more information on the charity please go to www.younitefoundation.com or email [email protected].

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