Swim For Rivers (SFR), an NPO comprising volunteers who work to help address the water crisis facing our country, is donating 450 Hippo Rollers to water scarce Eastern Cape communities this month.
SFR was started by Andrew Chin, an extreme swimmer who swims up rivers to create awareness about the plight of our distressed waterways. He’s been joined by communications consultant Craig Doonan and Leap Communications who volunteer to highlight the critical need to help all South Africans access clean drinking water.
Rural communities have identified one of their greatest needs to be transporting drinking water from rivers to their homes in the dry season when tanks and taps run empty.
SFR has identified Hippo Rollers – mobile water drums — as a temporary relief tool. They carry 90L compared to buckets which carry 20 or 25 litres. By the end of 2021, SFR will have donated over 800 Hippo Rollers to rural communities in the Eastern Cape.
SFR’s goals are to help bring clean drinking water to all and to protect the environment. They achieve this by:
- Raising awareness of the water crisis
- Raising funds for donations of Hippo Rollers to those communities most in need of them
- Extracting plastic from the communities where we donate rollers
- Arranging and executing river clean-ups
How you can help:
Please like and follow the Facebook page
Donate funds towards a roller here: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/sfr-fundraiser
Image credit: All images by Michael Walker
Hi, i am a registered tour guide with the Eastern Cape dept. of Tourism and my business is that of Motorbike Tours on the Wild Coast.
Each group that visits the area receives a letter from us requesting donations to the local schools, creches and sporting clubs in the area. Our ‘Pay It Forward” initiative.
Donations range from school stationary, sporting goods and toys for the creche’s in the area.
We arrange with the relevant headmasters, coaches etc. and get some of the riders to meet them and do the handovers themselves.
Since we started this it has been well received. I follow you on Facebook and always thought of doing something like this for the elders as they have the same water issues and walk many km’s to a nearby dam as the Amathole Water Line has not worked for the last 4 years.
I would appreciate some more information as to how i could get the riders to donate towards supplying some if these in our area.
The area we base at is Qora Mouth better known as Kob Inn. Close to the town of Willovale.
Regards