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
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!
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!)
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