We’re delighted to welcome Vicki Summersby to SwimTayka, as our new Financial Director.
Vicki is passionate about our work – running free swimming and drowning prevention programmes for children living alongside water – but she does have a confession: she doesn’t especially enjoy swimming!
News of a global decline in deaths due to drowning has been welcomed by a leading
water safety charity.
But SwimTayka, based in the UK which runs drowning prevention programmes in
under-resourced communities around the world, says more must be done to bring
the figures down even further.
For secondary school teacher Lisa Knights, helping on the SwimTayka project in Bali came at exactly the right time.
With her children grown up, and having summer holidays off from school, Lisa had been looking for a volunteering opportunity.
And – being a qualified swim instructor – helping SwimTayka was a perfect fit!
SwimTayka are long-standing partners with a local NGO in Bali, SwimDo, and together we have helped teach hundreds of children swimming and drowning prevention skills.
Royal Navy officer’s 200-day challenge puts swimming in the spotlight
What do you do if you love swimming, hate litter and want to fundraise for charities that prevent drowning, all at the same time?
In a few weeks’ time, five teams will be setting off in the wee small hours to complete the epic challenge of swimming the English Channel in a relay. They’ll be undertaking the feat to raise funds for the swimming charity SwimTayka, which saves the lives of children in underserved communities around the world, by providing free swimming and drowning prevention lessons.
As schools prepare to break up for the summer, a swimming charity is urging people to take care in the water – and is sending the message to tie in with World Drowning Prevention Day on July 25.
Now running for five years, SwimTakya’s partnership with Brazil-based charity ETIV do Brasil ensured around 150 children were taught to swim on the 2023 programme alone.
Based in Itacaré, Bahia, the programme runs from September to November, during which children in the area are given access to free swimming lessons and education in drowning prevention.
Perth, Australia – In a pivotal move towards global drowning prevention, SwimTayka has partnered with local entities in Africa to confront the critical issue of drowning, which accounts for the deaths of nearly 236,000 individuals globally each year. This significant collaboration was spotlighted at the World Conference on Drowning Prevention 2023 (WCDP 2023), conducted from 4-7 December in Perth, Western Australia.
There’s more to running a successful swim programme than simply getting children together with instructors. The programme has to run effectively, to teach the optimum number of children in a relatively short timeframe.
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| We provide free swimming lessons and environmental education about clean water stewardship to underprivileged children who live along the earth’s open water: rivers, lakes and oceans. |
