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CSR - 17-11-2022

People come especially for the 4-day swimming event

Petra Reuvers has been organizing the annual 4-day swimming event in swimming pool ‘De Oester’ in Fijnaart for sixteen years. First on her own, now together with colleague Melissa van Eggermond. Building social contacts and meeting new people drives her. The name Rijk Zwaan has been associated with this event for six years in a row.

Four days of swimming

“The name of the event says it all: four days of swimming. Children up to the age of nine and adults from 65 years of age swim 10 lanes a day for four days. That is equal to 250 meters. Children and adults, from 10 years to 65 years, swim 20 lanes a day, or 500 meters.”

For everyone

“Whether you are a swimming talent or swim breaststroke the old-fashioned way, anyone who can move in the water can participate. A good swimming technique is not important, as long as you feel like having a nice swim.”

Snack vegetables

“Rijk Zwaan has been sponsoring the swimming pool since 2016 to be able to organize this event. It usually takes place in or around the autumn break. When the time comes, the snack tomatoes and snack cucumbers will of course not be missing. It's nice to see that people come especially for the event, even though they don't normally swim with us and neither did they take lessons with us as a child."

Petra and Melissa love to organize swimming events that get people of all ages moving. We share their ambition by supporting sports activities in the local community of our workforce that also encourage children to participate, in line with our mission of Sharing a healthy future.