M umbai: Jiya Rai, a 16-year-old with autism spectrum disorder and daughter of an Indian Navay sailor, has made history by successfully swimming across the 34km English Channel in 17 hours and 25 ...

The swim is one of many that the high school junior has participated in throughout the last eight years to raise over $60,000 for cancer research Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE.