they learn to swim for free thanks to a solidarity operation

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This Tuesday morning of school holidays, they are ready. Swimming shorts, hat, diving goggles, the children are ready for their 2nd swimming lesson at the Guérande aquatic center (Loire-Atlantique).

Rather comfortable in the large pool where they have no footing, they will learn with Armelle, the swimming instructor, to move around in the water, on their stomachs, on their backs. We have fun while learning to swim and staying safe.

A solidarity operation

All week long, these boys, aged 5 to 8, took a swimming lesson for an hour each day.

An initiative made possible thanks to the partnership between Secours populaire de Guérande and Recréa, which also manages the aquatic centers of Piriac-sur-Mer, La Baule and soon that of Herbignac.

Fight against child drowning

To take action against the still too high number of drownings, “the group has been carrying out this action for 11 years in its swimming pools. This is the first time that it has taken place in Guérande,” Bastien Turbillon de Récréa explains to Echo de la peninsula.

The manager thus welcomed nearly 4,700 children in France through this operation called “like a fish in water”

For families helped by Secours populaire, lessons are free.

New operation in 2025

The goal is to teach them how to swim safely. Sometimes this learning is complicated during school sessions. And their parents do not have the financial means to enroll them in paid lessons.

A course had been planned in Piriac-sur-Mer but due to lack of participants it was canceled.

Nothing to discourage the team which intends to offer the operation again during the fall holidays of 2025.

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