via www.abqjournal.com: “You want to stop kids from drowning, right?” Jones asked (the crowd of community leaders in Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Local swimming schools and teams that partner with Make a Splash can get grant money for offering free or reduced-fee lessons to kids who might not otherwise enroll.
Though there are 400 partners nationwide, Albuquerque didn’t have one until Jones’ Thursday appearance. A local club team, Duke City Aquatics, has joined the cause, according to Kim O’Shea with the USA Swimming Foundation.
A USA Swimming Foundation statement says that since 2007, Make A Splash has reached more than 889,000 children with life-saving swim lessons and hopes to surpass 1 million by 2012. (Read the rest of this great report go here.)
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