By Dan Graham | Trustee
Since the last update, our 36 volunteer trainers in Sudan have been out and busy working to deliver their training programmes. We are ecstatic that they have taught over 3000 people (mainly children) to date.
Our plans for rolling out through the schools have been slightly delayed waiting for a new Minister of Education to be appointed, and getting a meeting with him. We are confident that we will gain permission to access the schools - and in that case our trainers will soon be teaching thousands more children.
We've recently had the finished video through from our Sudanese videographer who kindly volunteered his time. The link below will take you to the YouTube site. It mainly features the Beach Lifeguard training that we ran at the same time as the Aquatic Survival project, but it gives you a really nice flavour of what we do.
In other news, some of our trainers have actually been making life saving rescues, details are sketchy at this point... but it seems that whilst working at a swimming pool, he noticed a child in difficult - and entered the water to save them from drowning. It goes without saying that we are very very proud.
We're busy here working towards our October project, and planning is in full swing for an even bigger programme. We are planning to use the existing experienced trainers to teach new people how to train Aquatic Survival. Hopefully by the end of the programme we will have 100 instructors in Khartoum - to help us hit (in the long term) 4 million children.
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