{"id":57085,"date":"2022-09-08T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=57085"},"modified":"2022-09-08T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:15:23","slug":"surfing-september-off-to-a-successful-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/surfing-september-off-to-a-successful-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing September off to a successful start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian SurfAid ambassadors Nathan Rivalland and James Wilson-Browne kicked off their SurfAid Make A Wave challenge with a successful launch party, raising more than $10,000 to help provide clean water, health care and food security to families in need.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of the Make a Wave challenge are surfing every day during September to raise money, individually and in teams, for charity organisation SurfAid.<\/p>\n<p>Rivalland and Wilson-Browne, who are part of the Surfing Victoria team, hosted a launch party at 4 Pines on Saturday where they raised more than $10,000, putting them in the top four teams involved in Make A Wave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were so thrilled to sell out the event and to hear that so many people had an amazing night through donating, meeting new people and of course having a boogie,&#8221; Rivalland and Wilson-Browne said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78760\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78760 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/All-images-23-copy-5-600x320.png?_t=1662524455\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SurfAid CEO Doug Lees traveled from Sydney to attend the launch party. Photo: SARAH RIVALLAND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;To raise in excess of $10,000 is absolutely huge and it&#8217;s a credit to all the overwhelming generosity from all those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It actually makes us feel a bit emotional thinking about how much our event can and will make a difference to those people in remote communities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78759\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78759\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78759 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/All-images-23-copy-3-600x320.png?_t=1662524449\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keen surfers and musicians Jem Pryse and Maddy May played at the launch party to help the fundraising efforts. Photo: SARAH RIVALLAND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just $30 can provide health and hygiene training for a mother for a year, $50 can buy a weighing scale to identify malnourished children, $100 can provide a family with access to a latrine and handwashing facilities, $200 can train a midwife in safe birthing practices and $500 can help a family access clean water for a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To put that into perspective, that&#8217;s 20 families that can now drink clean drinking water for a year, or enough to train 50 midwives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pair thanked 4 Pines Torquay, SurfAid CEO Doug Lees for travelling from Sydney to attend, sponsors who donated for auctions and raffles, as well as everyone who contributed by purchasing raffle tickets or attending the night.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78756\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78756 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/All-images-23-copy-4-600x320.png?_t=1662524434\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raffles and auctions helped boost fundraising efforts at the event. Photo: SARAH RIVALLAND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78761\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78761 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/All-images-23-600x320.png?_t=1662524461\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: SARAH RIVALLAND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just want to say an absolutely massive thanks to everyone who donated to the cause last night through auction\/raffle items and tickets,&#8221; Rivalland said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ten-thousand dollars for a coastal town charity event is absolutely mind-boggling and it&#8217;s thanks to you that peoples lives are going to better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78762\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-78762 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/All-images-23-1-600x320.png?_t=1662524508\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A surfboard donated by Strapper was one of the many items to be won in the raffles. 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Pines on Saturday where they raised more than $10,000, putting them in the top four teams involved in Make A Wave.&#8221;We were so thrilled to sell out the event and to hear that so many people had an amazing night through donating, meeting new people and of course having a boogie,&#8221; Rivalland and Wilson-Browne said.&#8221;To raise in excess of $10,000 is absolutely huge and it&#8217;s a credit to all the overwhelming generosity from all those in attendance.&#8221;It actually makes us feel a bit emotional thinking about how much our event can and will make a difference to those people in remote communities.&#8221;Just $30 can provide health and hygiene training for a mother for a year, $50 can buy a weighing scale to identify malnourished children, $100 can provide a family with access to a latrine and handwashing facilities, $200 can train a midwife in safe birthing practices and $500 can help a family access clean water for a year.&#8221;To put that into perspective, 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