Era Barna
Welcome to the website of Swimathon. It’s a four-week community fundraising campaign and an event on 16th June 2018 having fun together in a swimming pool in Budapest. People like me swim and ask for your support in the campaign for a worthwhile cause close to our heart. Thus, swimmers like me are the “ambassadors” of different exciting community issues. We don’t only train to swim to reach the targeted distance and time in swimming, but also raise money for these programs to come true. ALL AMOUNTS AT THIS PAGE ARE GIVEN IN FORINTS (HUF), THE HUNGARIAN CURRENCY. 1EUR is approx. 310HUF, 1USD is approx. 267HUF
When I was a teenager my grandma took me to the tanned swimming instructor at the swimming pools who was hardly older than me and asked him to teach me freestyle swimming. I almost fainted and of course I didn’t learn it. Now I give myself four weeks to learn the basics of freestyle. As the director of FCF I find it important to challenge ourselves for our community. I’m going to swim 500 metres and as much as I can in freestyle. I’m going to swim and raise money with one of the mottos of my anonymous alcoholic friends: ‘Hurry slowly!’ Don’t panic, I’ll do my best but I’m not worrying too much and I won’t fluster, that’s my mantra and also my life challenge. I’m 50 so I’ll fight for HUF 200,050.