10/20/2025
Koady Chaisson’s Stay Cool Swim Cold 2025 ❄️🌈🩷 Link in bio 🥶
This year, family and friends of our beautiful Koady Chaisson will be swimming (we use that term loosely) all winter to continue Koady’s legacy of raising funds for really good causes.
We are opening the fundraiser earlier than the actual ‘challenge’ because this year’s charity is Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Canada. We have chosen this organisation in Koady’s name because they can get into Palestine, the Ukraine, the Congo, and many other areas where the human suffering is just unbelievable - and the funds are needed now.
For previous fundraisers, we (Koady’s family + friends and The East Pointers) have dipped:
December 1 - December 31
November 4 - December 4
But, we also:
Commit to going in the water at least once every month of the year
Go on anniversaries and birthdays
Have dipped every day in March (2022 + 2023)
Have dipped every day in May (2022)
March is by far the hardest month, and likely the month we will do the actual challenge. It’s the month of storms, of ice in the harbour. Koady loved getting into cold water. He loved the challenge and discipline, he loved discovering that he was capable of it. He loved taking other people in with him and laughing at their reactions. He loved the benefits he was seeing in himself and others; clear thinking, a sense of being alive and connected to the earth, a feeling of resilience and alignment. And afterwards, he loved building up the woodstove afterwards until the in-house temperature was almost unbearable, and making another pot of coffee while he tried to thaw his fingers out enough to pick up the tenor guitar.
Thank you so much for any way you choose to help involved, whether donating, buying a shirt, or just immersing yourself in cold water and thinking of Koady 💙
