Many Black communities in Britain and the US do not have safe access to swimming lessons and public pools due to historic racism. These women want to change that.
Omie Dale has fond memories of splashing in the sea as a child, of racing through water parks and swimming in backwaters and rivers.
04:56She co-founded Swimunity in 2020 to offer free swimming lessons to women and children in North Kensington, West London.The collective was born in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017, when a residential block caught on fire, killing 72 people -- and leaving many more without homes. "There's like a lot of people who come to swim lessons ...
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