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Survival Swim National Curriculum
Writing of a Survival Swim educational course for the national school curriculum.
There is no formalised swimming course or drowning prevention training in the Vietnamese school system
Your partnership of $250,000 will enable us to research, write and launch a national schools drowning prevention class
Impact:
Government mandated drowning prevention course for school children, nationally.
National train the trainer course for teachers.
10 million school children taught each year.
Expand to More Provinces
Geo-expansion into new Vietnamese provinces
There are 63 provinces and major cities in Vietnam, yet we currently work in only two of them. (Quang Binh & Quang Tri)
Your partnership of $150,000 will enable us to build capacity, expanding our programs into an additional province.
Estimated Impact in Year-1:
Teach 1,500+ children to swim.
Provide drowning prevention and water safety awareness training for 6,000+ children and their families.
Train 25 new swim teachers.
Build 5 new swimming pools.
Partnership with Rescue Tube Foundation
Vietnam has over 41,000 km of inland waterways, 3,260 km of coastline and countless ponds and lakes.
Public access Rescue Tubes are personal flotation devices designed to protect rescuers and to stabilize distressed swimmers before rescue by lifeguards.
Your partnership of $120,000 will enable us strategically place 100 essential “Rescue Tubes” on dangerous provincial beaches & waterways, providing safety aids where they are needed most.
Includes province wide communication, program launch, warning & instructional signage manufacture and placement.
Toolkit for Advocates
An investment of $25,000 can go a very long way toward reducing child drowning
Each donation can support 1 x District for 1-year, including:
250 orphans from SOS Children’s village to complete the full Swim Survival training program.
250 water safety and swimming education packs.
Flotation devices, swim uniforms, swim goggles, towels, sports bags.
3 new program instructors trained and annual salary.
The Essentials
An individual investment can go a very long way toward reducing child drowning:
$1,000 Provides water safety and swimming education materials for 25 children.
Flotation devices, swim uniforms, swim goggles, towels, sports bags.
$750 Sponsors 25 orphans from the SOS Children’s village to complete the full Swim Survival training program
$180 Sponsors a class of 6 x disadvantaged and/or disabled children to complete the Swim Survival training program
$175 Pays one program instructors’ monthly salary
$100 Provides training for one new swim instructor.
Donate Whatever You Can
While we love our corporate donors, not every gift needs to be a large one. Small donations add up, and every dollar makes a difference.
Your support, no matter the size, helps us teach life-saving skills to children across Vietnam. It funds the training of local swim instructors, helps build safe training pools, and provides essential water safety education to schools and communities.
Whether it is $5 or $500, your donation will save lives, help prevent child drowning and provide more children the chance to grow up safely.
Give what you can. Help us save a life.