PANJE / #PREVENTDROWNING

5 Min (GER) 2020 – STEREO
www.panje-preventdrowning.com

In the last decades many boat accidents have happened around Zanzibar. In many cases only men were able to safe themselves, because they could swim and the women had to drown, because they just could not.  The Zanzibar based charity foundation PANJE PROJECT has founded a swimming school and provides local women and girls with full-length swimsuits that cover their entire body, so they can enter the water without compromising their cultural and religious beliefs.  Not only teaching them swimming skills, but aquatic safety and drowning prevention techniques. The group has empowered its students to teach others, enabling them to pass on their skills to their communities, creating a sustainable cycle.
PANJE PROJECT wants to educate and inspire women to take action. With free swim classes for young and old, they learn to feel safe and connected to the sea. The picture of the women floating in the water symbolizes their empowerment.

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