The Swimathon is a fundraising event where swimmers recruit sponsors and swim laps to raise money for community causes. In 2010, the event was opened to other organizations and groups in Cluj who raised 63,000 LEI. 38 swimmers participated and supported causes like education, assistance for the elderly and children with special needs. The money raised supported projects like scholarships for students, meals for the elderly, and equipment for a kindergarten and mobile clinic. Over 30 volunteers helped organize the successful 2010 Swimathon event.

2. The Swimathon means swimming for the community causes. It also
means creative campaigns and also involving one’s partners and friends
as supporters.
In 2010, CCF has opened this framework to other organizations too, but
also to companies or informal groups from Cluj, who raised 63.000 LEI
trough this mechanism.

3. “The Swimathon is a special fundraising event, it is a mechanism activated
by the swimmers’ social networks. At its second edition we have offered to
other organizations too, but also to local companies and to informal groups
from Cluj, this opportunity to mobilize resources together with the Cluj
Community Foundation for the causes motivating them. Therefore, the event
has been exponentially growing in amplitude and also in what concerns the
number of swimmers, the raised amounts, and the number of supporters
and volunteers attending the event”.
Simona Serban, CCF executive director

4. The Swimathon 2010 figures
38 swimmers
63.000 LEI, engaged from the supporters
6 supported areas: education, house
rehabilitation, children with special needs, the
elderly, animal protection, sport
774 swam pool lengths
38 swam kilometers

5. and the supported projects

6. Voicu Bojan, Rada Sonea, Alin Vaida
and Liviu Vaida swam for the CCF’s
Community Initiatives Fund (CIF)
Total value of the first installment
allocated trough CIF: 19.538 LEI
Beneficiaries: 6 students supported
with monthly scholarships, a
seventh student receiving material
assistance for her participation at
international piano competitions.

7. Radu Morariu (Eximtur), Marcela Scripor, Cristian Covaciu – the
SwiMalteza team – swam for the projects of the Maltese Help Service
in Romania, Meal on wheels and the Maltese Special Kindergarten.
Total value of the first installment allocated: 3.040 LEI
From 1997, the elderly facing critical situations have received home a
free hot meal on a daily basis, trough the Meal on wheels program.
20 children with special needs are being looked after at the Maltese
Special Kindergarten.

8. The Noah’s Arch team, compound of Peter Madaras,
Daniel Szekely, Elefant Laszlo, Bodor Balazs, Liviu
Precup, Radu D. and Calin Chipriananov swam for the
Mobile Clinic project.
The Clinic has been acquisited with the financial support
offered by CCF and trough the Swimathon has been
raised the necessary amount for its medial equipment.
Total value of the first installment allocated: 4.878 LEI

9. Stacey Bulucz swam for the Crossover
basketball camp, for children aged 8
and 9. The camp takes place annually
in Cluj and it is the only from Romania
where children are trained by
American players.
Total value of the first installment
allocated: 8.852 LEI

10. Paul Crisan, Dan Maier, Flavian Catalin Pah, Traian Alexandru Potra, Mihai
Serdean, Paul Szanto swam for the Childhood dream room project,
developed by the following organizations: Habitat for Humanity Cluj, World
Vision Romania Cluj si Fundatia Romana pentru Copii, Comunitate si
Familie. The project aim is to rehabilitate 4 houses in which are living
families in need
They swam for the same iniative:
The Arobs employees: Florina Bufnea, Marian
Ovidiu Viorel, Marian Sanda Teodora.
The Vitacom Electronics employees: Eniko
Kovendi, Robi Ujfalvi, Andrei Ganga, Adrian
Costina, Zsolt Lenkey, Eva Hofbauer, Melinda
Kerekes
Total value of the first installment allocated:
4.854 LEI

11. Alina Porumb swam for the InJoy Cluj
Fund, managed by CCF and aimed at
supporting the projects for culture,
environment and sport, all connected to
the joy of living in Cluj.
Total value of the first installment
allocated: 640 LEI

12. Papp Emese, Bukos Robert, Filep-Rudamas Vahid-
Laszlo, Mac Oris-Cristian swam for the equipment
from the Cluj-Napoca Waldorf Highschool Gym
Total value of the first installment allocated: 1.535
LEI

13. Ligia Medrea, the Cora Hypermarche swimmer, supported
the projects of Cluj-Napoca Theodora House. Here, about
100 seniors are being taken care of.
Total value of the first installment allocated: 1.000 LEI
”I decided to participate again at the Swimathon because I
find it natural to have the opportunity of supporting a
community project trough such a simple gesture like
swimming”.

14. Cristiana Dragos – third
international 1st Prize

15. Supported in the Swimathon by Rada Sonea, the little pianist Cristiana
Dragos-Roman came back with the 1st prize from the International
Competition “Simone Delbert-Fevrier”, where she was voted in unanimity
by the jury. The event took place in Nice.
Cristiana is a 3rd grade student of the Cluj-Napoca Elf School. The Nice
distinction is the third prize she has obtained in an international
competition.
This year, Cristiana is the image of the Excelence Gala ”Ten for Cluj:
Juniors of the Citadel”, organized by the Cluj Municipality.

16. About 30 volunteers got involved in
organizing the Swimathon: from the
arrangement of the location for the
event to the timing of the competitors.

19. Amount
(LEI)
Details
63.000 The total engaged
6.000 Organizing cost, integrally covered trough the
taxes paid by the competitor
44.337 The value of the first grant installment
allocated

28. http://www.swimathon.fundatiacomunitaracluj.ro