One of my former Vancouver Masters Synchro teammates has been working in Bolivia for the past few years and in her free time there she started a synchronized swimming club! It’s the first ever synchro club in Bolivia and she’s running it on a completely volunteer basis. And that’s not easy. Check out her blog post about a typical practice.
A duet from the club is hoping to represent Bolivia at the Panamerican Championships taking place in Calgary at the end of August. But the cost of a flight to Canada is prohibitively expensive for the typical Bolivian – the girls in Lisa’s synchro club only pay the equivalent of $3 per month for lessons – so they have decided to try raising the money online.
Donations are being collected at GiveMeaning. If you can spare a couple dollars to help supported organized sports in a developing country, please consider making a donation.
And if you’d like to find out more about the club, check out their blog or some of the impressive media coverage they have been getting:
I donated and then stole your blog post to tell other people about it. Hope that’s alright!
It looks like they’re going to meet their goal!
Posted by jenn | 07. Jul, 2008, 6:42 pm