Empower 800 Deaf Kids in Ghana through Swimming

As part of our quest to give hope to marginalised and disabled children, we launched this special project to help support and integrate these children through the use of swimming.So far we have mobilized more than 50 children between the ages of 7 and 19 and have allocated them times and days for swimming lessons.Swimming days for these kids are four times within the week and they include Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday and Friday. Each lesson takes a period between one hour and thirty minutes and contains ten children each with one or two instructors mostly.

During our first lesson, the children were introduced to water familiarisation and it was fun.Most of these children have not had the experience of being in water and you could see the joy and excitement on their faces. In the subsequent weeks ahead they will be introduced to different strokes in swimming like the breast stroke and free style with more emphasis on skills and techniques with regards to leg and hands movement.

It is exciting to know that most of the parents of these children accompany their wards to the swimming lessons and they sit in excitement watching their wards develop new skills in life and supports our efforts in helping these children integrate fully into society through swimming. We hope to engage many more children from the Cape Coast School for the deaf and the blind where many of such children are kept apart and excluded from the Society. Talks are on going with the school to bring on board their students on to the program and give these children the unique opportunity to engage in swimming.

We are hopeful that after the christmas break and depending on our budget the school for the deaf and blind in Cape Coast will become official partner to our special swimming project for the deaf and the vulnerable.

We hope to have an official launching for this special swimming project for the hearing impaired and the vulnerable in march,2018 where these kids will demonstrate and show their skills in swimming. We hope to develop them to form the first swimming team for the deaf in the whole of the Central Region of Ghana and the second in the whole of Ghana. We are very grateful for your support and donations to this project and we believe in your continued support to make this special project a big success and put smiles to the faces of these children and help make them better people in future.