Wow! reached £1000 before I've started the swim so I've revised the target to one third of our annual commitment to Pathshala.

Louise will be swimming every day throughout February 2021 in the Exe Estuary. This is to raise money in memory of her son Sam. She will cover a daily distance of 400 metres (weather permitting), no wetsuit, in chilly tidal waters! By the end of month she will have swum 7 miles. Sponsor money will go to support students studying photo journalism at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Dhaka. Just two weeks before Sam died he learnt that he had been accepted to study film and photography at LCC. Examples of Sam Banks bursary students' photography (past and present) on the theme of water, will accompany post updates. The covid pandemic has hit low income families in Dhaka particularly hard and the students are more than ever in need of support right now.

Updates of swim progress will be posted on https://www.facebook.com/groups/sambanksmemorialfund and instagram sambanksfund2010