This is our 4th Annual Kids Swim for the Cure!
Here is how it all started...

Hi, I'm a student at a Quaker school outside of Philadelphia. In the summer of 2004 I did a community service project with my middle school principal. After that I realized how much we did for those people and thought that I could do more.

I have been swimming since I was 4 years old, and when I was 7 I joined a swim team. Right now I am on a local swim team. Which brings me to how this all started.

I was in the car going to swim practice when my mom and I started talking about the Livestrong wristbands. I said Lance Armstrong bikes, and I swim, so why don't we have a swim fundraiser? I then decided that we should do a swim for cancer. We asked the school swim coach to donate the pool, and he said yes. I decided to do skin cancer because that was what my grandfather, who was a swim coach, died from. A classmate said she would help. After researching and talking we decided to donate it to The Abramson Cancer Center of The University of Pennsylvania for skin cancer research.

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Hi, I'm Sara. Four years ago I asked Robert if I could help him to organize Kids Swim for the Cure.

At the time I was preparing for my batmitzvah and required to do a mitzvah project (mitzvah means "good deed"). Of course, I thought that this swim would be perfect for my mitzvah project. Little did I know that it would become such a huge success!

I am now in 9th grade and swimming for the West Chester East High School swim team. In the past three years that I have helped organize this fundraiser I have had nothing but good experiences, including the knowledge that I helped to raise over $24,000 for melanoma research!

Nothing is more rewarding than the knowledge that you helped others and what better way to do that than to help organize and run a fantastic event like Kids Swim for the Cure?