North Texas Giving Day - Help us SAVE LIVES
The MARS Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization is looking for your support during the North Texas Giving Day campaign this month. Please consider donating to the wonderful program that provides financial support to families in our community for life-saving swim lessons and water safety instruction. The Foundation goal is $10,000 which will provide for swim lessons for many hundreds of families in our community.
Your support is crucial to the Foundations efforts to save lives.
- No child is ever water safe.
- The goal of swim lessons is to make children SAFER in, on, and around water.
- 79% of children in households with incomes less than $50,000 have little-to-no swimming ability.
- Research shows 64% of African American, 45% of Hispanic/Latino, and 40% of Caucasian children have little to no swimming ability.
- 10 people drown each day in the United States.