Leadership & collaboration
There Is Room for All of Us. But Are We Really Making Room?
On collaboration, ego, the next generation, and what we choose to leave behind.
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Access & equity
Buy a Life Jacket or Feed Your Family: Africa's Deadliest Choice
Across Africa's lakes and rivers, governments have made life jackets mandatory. Almost none have made them possible.
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Water safety & humanity
Who Gets to Be Saved?
I thought drowning prevention was above politics. I was wrong.
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Policy & funding
Two Ways to Solve the Same Problem: What Florida and New York Show Us About Funding Swim Lessons
Different states, same goal: keep kids alive in the water. The methods could not be more different.
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Lifeguarding
The Best Lifeguarding Often Looks Like Nothing Happened
Author: Nathalie Martin, Founder, Swim Global Project
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Flooding & prevention
We Knew. That Is the Unbearable Part.
A year after Camp Mystic, and why flooding belongs in the drowning prevention conversation
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Community leadership
The Long Swim: What Uganda Is Teaching the World About Drowning Prevention
Drowning prevention in Uganda is not a story of a single organization, a single campaign, or a single famous name.
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History & access
The Backyard Pool: A History Written Beneath the Surface
Written by Nathalie Martin, Founder of the Swim Global Project
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Putting knowledge into practice
Drowning Prevention Has the Tools. Now Let's Use Them.
A field with extraordinary people, proven tools, and real momentum. Here is what the next chapter looks like.
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Public health
Individual Heroism is not a Public Health Strategy: The Problem with a "Zero Drownings" Mantra
Written by Nathalie Martin, Founder, Swim Global Project
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Experience worth sharing.
Contributions from the wider SGP community, with each writer’s voice and authorship preserved.
Community voices
Fifteen Minutes from the Ocean, a World Away From Swim Lessons
How a team of North Carolina lifeguards is teaching underserved kids to feel safe in the water they've lived beside their whole lives.
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Guest perspective
THE OCEAN DOESN'T NEGOTIATE
A surf lifeguard's account of what happens when the sea takes someone. Submitted by guest writer: Joel Gitelson
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