Contribution Underwrites Surfing Camps for Children Living with Autism
Alexander von Furstenberg has pledged $10,000 to Surfers Healing, a California-based non-profit founded “to enrich the lives of people living with autism by exposing them to the unique experience of surfing.”
Surfers Healing has been hosting surfing day camps for autistic children and their families since 2000. Backed by donations and staffed by volunteers, camps are provided free of charge to children, with private contributions ensuring that the participants are adequately supplied with wetsuits, surfboards, rash guards, life vests and other required equipment. The volunteer staff, most with a decade of experience, help to ensure a safe and comfortable day for children new to the ocean.
“It is my pleasure to support this cause” said Alex von Furstenberg, an avid kite-surfer and Malibu resident. “I’m very impressed with Surfers Healing’s unique initiative, and subscribe to their belief that the ocean can serve as a site of respite and empowerment.”
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Alexander von Furstenberg is the Director and Secretary of The Diller – von Furstenberg Family Foundation, which has supported children’s causes and environmental programming since 1999. Alex von Furstenberg and The Diller – von Furstenberg Family Foundation recently announced a partnership with non-profit organization Heal The Bay to sponsor Malibu’s only comprehensive beach water quality program, the Beach Report Card.
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For more on Surfer’s Healing, please visit:
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