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People have become water safe and learned to swim!
Many of the 100,000+ Foreign Domestic Workers temporarily working in Singapore come from other island nations like the Philippines, composed of over 7,600 islands and Indonesia, composed of over 17,000 islands. Still, many Foreign Domestic Workers do not know how to swim. Overcoming the fear of water and learning how to be water safe and swim could not only open up a new world and opportunities to them, but it could potentially save lives.
This way, the program would not only teach a set number of Foreign Domestic Workers to swim, but it would have the “ripple effect,” effectively opening the doors to water safety and basic swimming knowledge to hundreds and even thousands of people.
Swim Ripple, started in 2020, is a private, non-profit organisation that provides free swimming lessons for foreign domestic workers in Singapore. Coaches are expert swimmers, usually having many years of experience swimming competitively on secondary and tertiary school swimming and water polo teams and/or with certified swimming instruction certificates, who volunteer their time on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Foreign Domestic Workers enrolled in Swim Ripple must commit to attending at least six classes provided on select weekend evenings. They may get certified in basic water safety or in basic water safety and mastery of basic swimming. Once certified, they commit to sharing their knowledge of swimming to at least two friends, family members, or anyone else. And those who they teach, must commit to doing the same. And so on, and so on, and so on.
This way, the program would not only teach a set number of Foreign Domestic Workers to swim, but it would have the “ripple effect,” effectively opening the doors to water safety and basic swimming knowledge to hundreds and even thousands of people.
Many of the 100,000+ Foreign Domestic Workers temporarily working in Singapore come from other island nations like the Philippines, composed of over 7,600 islands and Indonesia, composed of over 17,000 islands. Still, many Foreign Domestic Workers do not know how to swim. Overcoming the fear of water and learning how to be water safe and swim could not only open up a new world and opportunities to them, but it could potentially save lives.
Swim Ripple, started in 2020, is a private, non-profit organisation that provides free swimming lessons for foreign domestic workers in Singapore. Coaches are expert swimmers, usually having many years of experience swimming competitively on secondary and tertiary school swimming and water polo teams and/or with certified swimming instruction certificates, who volunteer their time on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Foreign Domestic Workers enrolled in Swim Ripple must commit to attending at least six classes provided on select weekend evenings. They may get certified in basic water safety or in basic water safety and mastery of basic swimming. Once certified, they commit to sharing their knowledge of swimming to at least two friends, family members, or anyone else. And those who they teach, must commit to doing the same. And so on, and so on, and so on.