Bali International Women’s Association (BIWA) once again held “Annual Charity Tennis Tournament 2010” in Nusa Dua Bali on March 10-13 2010.

“Later the fundraising result will be used to financing BIWA social charities in 2010,” said Biwa President, Melly St. Ange to the press in Nusa Dua Bali on Tuesday (March 2).

He said that the tennis tournament is an event they held routinely each year and it has been the fifth event held this year.

Last year the numbers of participants are around 200 people from 15 countries such as Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada, USA and Indonesia as the host.

That tennis tournament, said Melly, to give a chance for the people funding for social charity held by BIWA with 300 members from 29 different countries.

“We held the tournament for fundraising in order to finance BIWA charity program a year,” said Melly while get accompanied with her vice president Marianne Vertegal as well as with others committees.

It is said that in a year there is varied of activities this organization will conduct. For instance, BIWA plan to buy mammogram or cancer test equipment in order to deal with numbers of breast cancer patients in Bali that has increase already.

“We already had that equipment but it such an old technology. We need new mammogram makes this malignant disease could be found as soon as possible and get better treatment,” said Melly.

Besides, she continued, there will be a program to help AIDS/HIV victims as well as charity program for poor children as they could go to school with better facilities.

For example, last year BIWA donated shoes for children who still in their elementary level at Seraya Village of Karangasem Regency in which they went to school without any footwear.

Meanwhile, the manager of Bali Tennis Academy, Julio Alcaraz who is a partner in this charity said that this year they have a great effort to involve children participating actively in this charity program.

News by Antara Bali