By Dan Graham | Trustee & Lead Instructor
The timing of this quarterly report is just a touch early to bring you ALL the exciting news.
So - the project that you helped to fund, where are we....
Visas = confirmed.
Flights = chosen, not yet booked.
Locations = selected.
Instructors = selected & briefed (2 British, 3 Sudanese)
Candidates = being identified (by the Sudanese Sea Scouts)
Training programme = being finalised.
Dates = training will be from the 15th to the 26th of March.
And... the BEST news that we have... despite being short on our overall project budget - we are STILL able to run the FIRST EVER female drowning prevention training in Sudan! We are so excited to have a British female instructor coming out with us, and also female Sudanese trainees on the course. We are aiming for a 50/50 split!
We have two programmes running consecutively - we are going to teach some people to become Aquatic Survival Instructors (to teach kids basic swimming skills), and we are going to teach some other people to become Beach Lifeguard Instructors.
Personally, one of the exciting things about this project is the involvement of the three Sudanese instructors. One has been involved since 2007, and the other two since 2011. Our whole model is to work ourselves out of a job, and we hope that one day the Sea Scouts will say to us that they are running a project, and they don't need our help any more. Getting this guys involved to take an active & principal part in the delivery of the two training programmes that we are running is a really important step towards that long-term goal.
We are also in the process of submitting some academic papers to the World Conference on Drowning Prevention that will be happening in Malaysia in November 2015.
Things for later in the year are looking good, with some lovely funders showing some interest.
Thank you for your help and support. We are constantly humbled by it. The next time you hear from us through GlobalGiving - it will be a report on all the things that went on in Sudan!
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