The Swim Schools of Bangladesh (Adventure Uncovered)
“We talk with Becky Horsbrugh about her involvement in the Bangladesh SwimSafe scheme and her forthcoming 10-mile Bangla Channel swim.”
Early last year, foreign news journalist and qualified swim teacher, Becky Horsbrugh, travelled to Bangladesh to provide assistance for a drowning prevention scheme. She’d recently been introduced to a harrowing fact, that 50 children die a day from drowning in Bangladesh.
Throughout the whole of the UK that many children die in water, in a year alone. It was immediately clear to Becky that she needed to help if she could, and so she arranged to travel to Bangladesh, intent on lending her expertise to the local schemes. This was a crisis that was very close to Becky’s heart. Swimming is something she has filled her spare time with for as long as she can remember, and like many wild swimmers, she can’t remember a time when she didn’t feel at home in the water...
