Filmmakers Michael Lawrence and David Kruta recently went to the Mentawai Islands and Nias, off Sumatra, Indonesia, to cover our work in malaria, water and sanitation, and emergency preparedness.
Lawrence first worked with SurfAid in 2010, when he volunteered to photograph our emergency and recovery work after the devastation of the October 2010 Mentawai tsunami.
Fifteen years of skating experience will be put to good use when Dominic Kolodziej travels 260 miles on a board in the name of charity.
Preparations are underway for the 24-year-old who will start his Maidenhead to Newquay journey on June 1. He hopes to complete it in just seven days.
Dominic, a former Desborough School pupil, said: … More
A Western Michigan University student has completed a six-day, 216-mile kayak trip down the Muskegon River to raise money for Parkinson’s disease research, education and advocacy.
Cody Ledsworth paddled to the finish line at a boat launch on Muskegon Lake on Tuesday. The 20-year-old’s trip was in honor of his grandmother, Marguerite Ledsworth, who has the disease, The Muskegon Chronicle reported.
The trip has raised more than … More
This is miniature documentary about Jack Smith’s A Push to Remember fundraiser for Alzheimer’s Disease. On July 7, 2013, Smith and a team of skateboarders will push across America in honor of his dad who passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease in 2012.