# Swim Vietnam

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC042133
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Feb. 25, 2011
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC042133


## Contact

- **Address:** 79B High Street, Kinghorn, Fife
- **Postcode:** KY3 9UW
- **Website:** www.swimvietnam.com



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the saving of lives&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of public participation in sport&#x27;

**What the charity does:** 2,000 children drown in Vietnam each year. That is more than 5 children every day*. The World Health Organisation calls it the “silent epidemic” and believes this figure to be conservative. Many of these lives could have been saved simply if the children had been taught how to swim. (*Vietnam Ministry of Health Statistics) - Swim Vietnam, a registered charity located in flood prone Central Vietnam. Our mission is to reduce the rates of drowning in Vietnam. Our core business is providing high quality survival swimming lessons and classroom-based water safety education to Vietnamese children, training locals as internationally accredited swimming and water safety teachers, trainers and presenters. We work closely with government authorities and other drowning prevention INGOs to bring swimming and water safety education to all parts of Vietnam.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;

**Objectives:** (i) To provide swimming and water safety lessons, having particular regard to the needs of children up to the age of 15. and (ii) To increase knowledge of water safety issues throughout Vietnam. (iii) To provide, to people in Vietnam, certain educational services and materials which are related to the purposes described in the foregoing Objects.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Outwith Scotland
- **Geographical spread:** Overseas only







