SWIM Camobodia, Saving Children from drowning

Every 4 hours, a child dies from drowning in Cambodia.*

My name is Conrad, I lead SWIM Cambodia, a UK charity, from my home office in Shoreham-by-Sea. I used to live and work in Cambodia with my family. The year we left we heard about a boy we knew called Ravi who was 12 years old. He was playing with friends in a canal when he drowned and later died. This led me to look into drowning prevention in Cambodia. Not seeing anything in place, I put together a proposal, a trustee board and trained a small team of Cambodian volunteers to teach Water Safety and CPR to children.

Since then, I have developed local partners to deliver teaching. SWIM Cambodia has educated over 7000 children and 1000 adults. We are developing local leadership and with funding we hope to employ Water Safety and Swimming teachers who are integrated into the school system; this will help us reach many more children. But we can only go ahead with this plan if we can raise sufficient funds. I especially need and value support with this, as I do this work voluntarily on top of my full-time job.

If you would like to support SWIM Cambodia by taking part or leading a fundraising event, or you would like to me to give a presentation about our work, please contact me.

Email: conrad@swimcambodia.org.

Conrad Foote

Founder Trustee

SWIM Cambodia www.swimcambodia.org https://linktr.ee/swimcambodia

* UNICEF CAIS, 2007

‘Children aged 1 to 17 in Cambodia die each year from drowning than from any other single cause –35.0 per 100,000. Every 4 hours and 12 minutes a child dies from drowning.’