Girl Guides Qld - Swimming Lessons in Cambodia

Posted by Franz Huber

on Jun 12, 2016

Remember in September 2014, one of my personal friends, Joy Ord (she is the Gold Coast Region chief as well as International Manager of Girl Guides Queensland) gave us a presentation of one of her projects, "drown - proofing" young kids in Cambodia. She had conducted this type of project before, with great success. Yes! A very large percentage of kids in that country cannot swim, yet they face serious dangers since there is certainly no pool fencing around the numerous ponds that exist everywhere. Surfers Sunrise provided Joy with $500 to conduct another one of these projects. , who has carried out this type of projects before, had planned to conduct another swimming school in February this year, but it had to be cancelled due to ... cold weather! [Hmmm... perhaps that's why they changed the terminology from 'Global Warming' to 'Climate Change'... Ed.]. It is now planned for August this year. A positive aspect: Because our donation was changed to $US, she got $US 451.00, not the $370.00 she would get today (and heavens knows what it would be in August!).

An interim report from Joy is on the download list on the right. Check it out!

Franz Huber.