Following the tragic mass drowning incident in August 2018, Nile Swimmers team visited Al Manaseer area in September to carry out a community risk assessment using our DRAT toolkit. The aim of the assessment was to understand the risk factors related to drowning deaths within these communities and to assess the communities’ needs so that Read More
The Inspirational Impact of Olympic Athletes
Here at Nile Swimmers, we are obviously fans of swimming. We saw two news stories this morning which prompted a few thoughts. The first was Singpaorian Joseph Schooling won GOLD by beating Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, and László Cseh who ALL got silver in the mens 100m butterfly. Joseph Schooling had competed at the Read More
Aquatic Survial instructors called to village of Butri after drowning deaths
On the 28th of December, 15 Nile Swimmers’ instructors headed to a very beautiful and quiet village, located in the south of Khartoum city, at the request of the Butri Charity Association (BCA). The Association is composed of young people from the village, and works to serve the village, to improve the community services and Read More
October Project – the numbers
This has been a funny few days. Becky travelled back to the UK a few days ago, and slowly my teaching commitments are ending, and project ending meetings are taking places. Meetings planning work for 2016 are happening, and people are starting to say goodbye. With ever visit, we get more infatuated with this country, Read More
The human faces of drowning prevention
Today, I started to teach our first Aquatic Survival Instructor course in partnership with the Ministry of Education. We are working with them to train 30-40 school teachers as Aquatic Survival Instructors, we then have funding in place to support them delivering those messages to 40 schools – targeting thousands and thousands of children. These Read More