Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The Poppy Project

Simon and I will be swimming to raise money for Eaves Poppy Project.
http://www.justgiving.com/simonandmillie

The Poppy Project was set up in 2003 to provide accommodation and support to women who have been trafficked into prostitution or domestic servitude. The Poppy Outreach Service works to improve the safety and wellbeing of women from all over the UK who have been trafficked and who are in need of short-term support and advocacy. The Eaves project provides refuges across London for women (and their children) leaving domestic violence.

Every year thousands of women are trafficked globally for sexual exploitation. Sex trafficking is worth $12 billion a year to the criminals who trade in women's misery.

Poppy recently helped Katya*, a Moldovan woman who was kidnapped by traffickers when she was 14, repeatedly sold on to pimps and other traffickers, and forced to work as a prostitute for seven years in Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Israel and the UK.

We are sad to learn that The Poppy Project has lost it's government funding, however, we believe that its work should continue and hope you will help us to support the Poppy Project.

All money raised will go directly to the Poppy Project. http://www.justgiving.com/simonandmillie

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Simon's progress before cracking a rib....

I haven't figured out yet how to put the stats up online as we go. But below is a teaser of the visual delights that we might regularly be posting.
My longest swim in Feb before I cracked my rib surfing in March was 2475m... still short but with lots of time still to train.

Off surfing again on Friday though now I'm nearly recovered... A good way to kick of the training again!

Hello!

This is Millie and Simon's blog about swimming the Hellespont in 2011 from Europe to Asia!

We are halfway through our training... sort of. The swim takes place at the end of August. It is a race across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world - mercifully closed for an hour and a half. The distance is 4.5km.

We're going to be posting our training progress here and keeping you up to date on our chosen charity.

More to come on that!