It’s a plan that’s never actually gone through, but it’s cool that we have picked up this plan and are making it happen.
It’s my baby. Lauren Prebble, Rotorua Girls’ High School head girl Many of us have fond childhood memories of swaying back and forth on the local playground swing. But a group of Rotorua Girls’ High School students will turn that leisurely pastime into a fundraising venture as part of World Vision’s 40-Hour Famine. While many thousands of people will be going without food for the duration of the popular annual fundraising event, about 50 Year 13 students will be involved in a Swing-A-Thon, which will see the girls swing two at a time at the Lakefront’s Volcanic Playground starting at 6pm tonight and finishing 24 hours later at 6pm tomorrow. The participants will swing in half-hour or one-hour blocks and members of the public are being encouraged to go and lend their support – and add to the donation buckets. Prefect Jane Wishart, 17, said it would be good to raise about $300. The concept was the brainchild of deputy head girl, 17-year-old Lauren Prebble.
“It’s been an idea in my head [for a while] and I always thought it would be a funny thing to do,” she said.