private swimming pools to teach young people from priority neighborhoods to swim
Two out of three Marseille students in the priority zone do not know how to swim when they enter college in the Marseille city.
“I lived in the northern districts of Marseille and I did not have easy access to the swimming pool”. These words are those of Andréa, a 25-year-old Marseillaise, who like many young people did not have the chance to learn to swim from an early age.
To broadcast to this, Contact Club Association has set itself the task of helping all young people in priority neighborhoods and teaching them to swim in the private swimming pools of certain Marseillais made available to their pools.
The Eau-rizon project was therefore born, and provides ten hours of swimming lessons, spread over five weeks.
“I can’t get into the pool at all, I was very scared. There, I feel that I’m relaxing. I’m floating, I’m already happy,” says Andréa, a 25-year-old Marseillaise who is taking part in the project, at the microphone of BFM Marseille Provence.
“A civic approach”
If for some, these lessons allow you to practice swimming and feel more comfortable in the water, for others like Aurine, a young resident of a priority district of Marseille, they can also be an opportunity for their future. The young woman hopes to be able to get her lifeguard certificate to in turn “train elderly people to swim”.
If for these young people, their baptism of water takes place in the swimming pool of a resident of the Saint-Barnabé district in Marseille, who sees it as “a real citizen approach”, the Contact Club association is also looking for other pools in town, but also lifeguards, to develop the Eau-rizon project.
“We are appealing because we need other individuals to open the doors to us in order to give these young people opportunities”, indicates Jean-Louis Kamba Malu, in charge of the Eau-rizon project, at the microphone of BFM Marseille-Provence. .
The device seems essential in Marseille, two out of three students in the priority zone do not know how to swim when they enter college in the Marseille city. One of the reasons for this low statistic could be the lack of pools available in the City, which has six times fewer municipal pools than the national average.