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Logan Council funds adult swimming program to combat high rate of migrant drownings – ABC News
Language barriers and a lack of opportunity has left migrants and refugees with poor swimming skills meaning about 80 people drown each year — a Queensland council…
The first time Khadra Hussein Awil, 20, took her first tentative steps into a pool was earlier this year.
Coming from Somalia, she is amongst a new cohort of refugees and migrants learning to swim through a program funded by Logan City Council and the Federal Health Department.
At first, Khadra said she was scared, but her confidence has quickly grown.
She now has dreams of swimming at Gold Coast’s iconic beaches and training to become a pool-side lifeguard.
“It was so amazing, and I enjoy it and…
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