“Swim for Hope”, in support of the Little Fighters Cancer Trust (a South African organisation that supports children with cancer and their families)

 

Carina Bruwer, lead player of South African Music Award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ and record holding marathon swimmer, after a dramatic and widely publicized solo rounding of Cape Point in Cape Town, completed a crossing of the Bonifacio Straits this year, swimming 15 km from Corsica (France) to Sardinia (Italy) in challenging conditions and 4 times the crossing through the Straight of Messina.

 

 

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“Childhood cancer has a desperate effect on the whole family like no other cancer”, says Carina.  “There are many people – especially sufferers themselves - rallying and doing amazing work for breast cancer and other chronic diseases, but children do not have the same voice nor the ability to spread awareness, making it incredibly challenging for childhood cancer fighters to get the message across and raise much needed funds.  Having two perfectly healthy children myself, I simply could not remain untouched by LFCT’s work and the cause, and making a small difference to them has made a big difference in my own life. In South Africa, the limited resources are shared between AIDS, Adult Cancers and diseases such as Tuberculosis and Malaria, with child cancer being in dire need of awareness campaigns and support structures.  I’m therefore hoping to create some international awareness and support through my European swims”.