Teaching The Life Skills Of Swimming And Water Stewardship
We provide free swimming lessons and environmental education about clean water stewardship to underprivileged children who live along the earth’s open waters: rivers, lakes and oceans.
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11 Jan 2022Huanchaco, Peru
Project We are delighted to be returning to Peru in 2022 for Swim Tayka’s 5th programme of positive change. Try…
- Huanchaco, PeruLocation
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01 Mar 2022Itacare In Bahia, Brazil
Get Ready For A Life-Changing And Beautiful Adventure To Itacare In Bahia, Brazil Please join us in April – May…
- Itacare In Bahia, BrazilLocation
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04 Jul 2022Bali, Indonesia
Join Us In Bali, Indonesia To Help Teach Children To Swim Please join us for two weeks in July or…
- Keramas, Bali, IndonesiaLocation
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05 Aug 2022Guinjata Bay, Mozambique
Join Us In Mozambique To Help Teach Children To Swim Please join us for two weeks in August 2022 (actual…
- Guinjata Bay, MozambiqueLocation
Successful projects
17
Children Impacted
7,065
Total amount raised
£56,874
Total Volunteers
46
Upcoming events
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15
Aug
2021
The Thames Marathon
SwimTayka is delighted to announce its partnership and involvement with the 2021 Thames Marathon, the Henley Swim event to take… -
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Sep
2021
ENGLISH CHANNEL Assessment Day
The Challenge Would you like to conquer the Everest of the swimming world? Want to swim from England to France… -
11
Jan
2022
Huanchaco, Peru
Project We are delighted to be returning to Peru in 2022 for Swim Tayka’s 5th programme of positive change. Try…
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Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives every year, many of them children. Drowning is the 3rd leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide. These are wasted lives and preventable deaths.
Some of the success stories
Who Wants To Go The Beach?
The highlight of everyone’s day (children and volunteers alike) is hearing “Who wants to go the beach?” Without fail the universal response is an excited chorus of “yays and yes’s.” The beach segment includes beach clean-up along with individual and team-building games and activities. But the real treat is hopping in the ocean and practising pool drills along with having free time. Volunteering with SwimTayka truly is a unique experience and an opportunity I’m so glad to have had.
Gary EmichTraining Teachers In Tanzania Was Fun And Rewarding
One of our biggest issues was the majority of the teachers only spoke Swahili, but thankfully one of the team, Ali had a good command of English and he did a sterling job translating for us. For me, it was a steep learning curve. I’m used to teaching children to swim normally on a one to one basis in the UK. While the work I do in drowning prevention in Bangladesh involves being with the children and getting them confident in the water. Here we were actually training other teachers. But it was fun and rewarding as time passed, to see our students understanding the basics of the new strokes.
Becky HorsbrughExciting, Enriching, Fulfilling, And Humbling
I am very grateful for having had the privilege of working with wonderful volunteers, and so many wonderful children who were eager to learn! You just never know the impact you will have on someone, but in this case, it is my hope that because of this program, someone who may have drowned, won’t!
Lisa AdamsSuper Helpful Elia
Super helpful Elia, he supports the swimming lessons every morning! He gets in the pool with the trainer Daniel, no matter if there is rain or sun and helps to encourage each one of the children so that they can learn to swim! With a smile on his face and kindness, he influences the children positively!
EliaSwimming Lesson With The Children Of Peru
It was an amazing experience and I am so glad I was part of it.
Fiona LoganBeing a little crazy with a French accent. She is crackers!
“professor Chloé, la playa? la piscina?”, getting hugs and kisses on the cheeks. This was a wonderful feeling every day when we picked up the children.
Chloé Joseph
