Making a splash to raise funds for Crohn's & Colitis NZ

My 24-year-old daughter has recently been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, and I have another two young family members who have also been battling both Cohn’s and Colitis for the last couple of years. I feel so helpless as a parent seeing my daughter deal with the symptoms of this condition, I just want to do something to help so I am trying to raise funds to support the Crohn's & Colitis NZ (CCNZ) foundation which supports people with inflammatory bowel disease.

My Plan A was to get 100 swimmers to join me to swim the combined distance around NZ (15,134km). I am not giving up on this and will continue to try to recruit more swimmers as the weeks go by. As of today (1 April 2025) I have 51 swimmers, so have settled on my Plan B option which is to swim the distance around the South Island of NZ over the course of 1 year. I aim to start this challenge on 1 April 2025.

Please help this cause by kindly donating to CCNZ.