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Rescue Boat training with the Sudanese Civil Defence

25th March 2016 - By Dan Graham

Since our very first course over 9 years ago, we have been working with the Civil Defence to improve safety around the Nile in Sudan.  The first few courses had a few people from the Civil Defence participating, but in a relatively unstructured ad-hoc way, without a clear route for cascading training or a longer-term Read More

Aquatic Survival v2.0

9th October 2015 - By Dan Graham

Tomorrow, 22 new Aquatic Survival Instructors join the ranks of the existing 36, as we present them with their Instructor certificates.  It is really fun course to deliver, with lots of different elements of content that we add in.  As I have my first lie in of the entire time that we’ve been out here in Read More

Cuolo Tamaam – Everything’s OK!

30th September 2015 - By Becky Sindall

Something has changed in Sudan. We have been here now for four days, teaching the first pool lifeguard course for LMICs. And so far, everything has gone extremely smoothly. In Sudan, that is unusual! Our local Nile Swimmers management team, Mai, Mosab and Hamid, have done us proud. On Monday, we arrived at the Sea Read More

StopDrowning – Sudan – Day 1 (ish!)

15th March 2015 - By Dan Graham

After a very eventful few journeys – we are finally relaxing after the first day of the training programme here in Khartoum, Sudan. As with most things in Africa, there is an element of “last minute” about the preparations and details.  However, after working together on many projects over the last eight years – the Read More

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