“You know,we have populations of people who lack basic swim skills,”says Julie Gilchrist.“In swimming pools...presumably,you know where the bottom is,you know where the sides are,” she says.“And so one would think that with basic swim skills it should be difficult for an older child or teen to drown in a swimming pool.And yet that’s what we were seeing among AfricanAmericans.”
Swimming pool drowning rates among schoolaged black children are more than five times higher than they are among white kids the same age.Why?There are many reasons,but one big one.“Kids who are living in public housing,growing up where finance is a real problem,singlemother households,opportunities for just having access to a pool are limited.”
After four decades of work to get a pool built,Codrington is finally getting one,in the heart of South Miami.Codrington calls it a “mixed bag”.He wishes the new pool were bigger—to accommodate things like swim meets and lifeguard lessons.But he’s satisfied knowing that it’ll be a place where neighborhood kids can learn to swim.
“This is going to save a lot of lives just as it is.It’s going to save a lot of children from drowning,” he says.
1.At Ransom Everglades,Kendrick
A.was being trained to swim for Olympics
B.was learning the skills of swimming for free
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