UPDATE - 13 July 2004
Already received at the Trust is £120,000+. We are waiting for a number of swims that took place after Dec 2003 to confirm final amounts so it looks as though the final figure could be quite a bit more than this.
People continue to come forward and offer to organise a swim in countries where to date there has not been a Swim For Terri so a few more countries have been added to the list. Several schools in different parts of the world have decided very generously to have a Swim For Terri fundraiser every year from now on.
Terri is doing well. She has not had an operation since her time in hospital in December and there are no immediate plans for another visit to hospital. Terri is about to finish her school year and is looking forward to the summer holidays, although because her skin is very sensitive to the sun, she has to be careful. Not a problem with our weather in the UK then!
UPDATE - 21 Dec 03
My sincere thanks to everyone who has Swum For Terri. You're terrific!
There are a few swims yet to happen but what started as three guys in a pool
became, with your help, 150 swims in 70 countries involving 7,000 people. It
has been immensely moving to read the post-swim reports emailed to me, all of
which will be added to the website over the coming days, with photos.
There were 11 eleven year olds swimming for Terri in La Paz, Bolivia; an entire
school of 700 were swimming for Terri in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a school in
Birmingham, England completed 30 Channel crossings with 600 students
participating and two girls completed the entire 35kms between them; the Royal
Air Force flew 8 students to Ascension Island in the middle of the South
Atlantic to join the Swim For Terri there; Air Greenland flew four students to
Nuuk to join Greenland's Swim For Terri; in Darwin, Australia they swam 120kms
between them; in Monterrey, Mexico a man who suffered 68% burns as a young boy
went along to support those swimming; in South Africa, there was not just one
Swim For Terri, but a swim in almost every state; there were swims in Swaziland
and Zimbabwe; in Sydney, Australia a blind swimmer who has actually swum the
English Channel led 17 swimmers in a 2km ocean swim and were applauded out of
the water by 500, including Terri's great-aunt; Terri's father Paul visited
swims in Norwich, Cambridge and Ipswich; two individuals even completed the
35kms on their own in Jersey and in Grange-over-Sands in the UK; there were
swims in Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei,
Vietnam, Thailand, Spain, Norway, Svalbard, Switzerland, the Falkland Islands,
Uruguay, Peru, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Canada, China,
New Zealand...I could go on and on.
I don't know how much money we have raised but I hope to post an estimate in the
next 10 days. Tens of thousands of pounds though. The final figure will be
known towards the end of January.
On 2nd Dec Terri went into hospital to have operations on her hands to try and
give her fingers. A stark reminder of what this was all for.
My sincere thanks to everyone involved.
Rob
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