This program creates an opportunity for disadvantage and disability student to learn how to swim and be safe in and around the water in the rural communities in Vietnam.

Further funding is needed to continue this program in upskilling, training and utilising local Vietnam swimming instructors.

Overall the benefits is the continuation and sustainability of the Swim Vietnam Programs that have had a major impact to the drowning statistics in Vietnam already.

• More children can access the program

• Training of new local swimming instructors

• Upskilling of current local swimming instructors to teach children with disabilities

• Decrease of drowning statistics – 2,000 child deaths from drowning in

2021. This number has also been widely quoted in Vietnam press and media articles and Swim Teaching organisations and mostly running with this number – this equates to more than 5 each day. This number is dramatically lower than previously quoted drownings but still quite shocking.

GWSDPRC is aiming to raise $5000 to go towards this project and we cannot thank Alina enough to start this fundraising with a bang. She mightn’t drink coffee but that doesn’t matter!!