Feb 17, 2021 / 08:11 PM EST
AVON, Ind. (WISH) If you know children who need swimming lessons, YMCAs in the Indianapolis area are offering scholarships to teach them how.
The effort was designed to teach kids in underserved communities about water safety.
The Greater Indianapolis YMCA centers are upping their commitment to the cause after the COVID-19 pandemic, when fewer kids learned to swim.
Chelsea Walls, association director of aquatics, shared her passion for teaching children to swim and pushing the program forward on Wednesday’s “All Indiana.” Watch the videos for more.
The YMCA found that according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that drowning is the second-leading cause of death for kids age 1 to 14. Meanwhile, in ethnically diverse communities, youths drown at a rate two to three times higher than the national average; this information was based on a study by USA Swimming.
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