Why Support Us?
Over the past
years, Teach on the Beach has been mainly focused on the academic development
of its community kids and ensuring that less privileged kids are catered for in
respect to their education and enrolment in school through scholarships. As we
are growing and expanding our work, we realised there was the need to inculcate
a swimming and surfing program into our work. The reason is that, there's been
several deaths at the coast mainly because people are not trained to learn how
to swim. Most people drown easily because they can't swim.
So far in 2023, 4 people have drowned in the sea in the beautiful village
of Busua. Being so close to the ocean, many locals rely on fishing and teaching
surfing as a form of income, however, very little know basic water safety or
swimming skills.
What We've Done
With the help of a former volunteer, Ellie Bunce, who has experience as a
swimming teacher began using her skills to teach the students at Teach on the
Beach basic survival skills in the water. This was made possible by hiring out
a local pool to deliver swimming lessons.
We have realised that most of the kids enjoy being in the water a lot and hence
with this program, we are making education on swimming accessible for
children and to help them gain water
safety skills as they live most of their lives on the beach.
Moreover, this year we started having surfing lessons with the kids and it’s
been very interesting to see the level of commitment from them. Our in-house
assistant director is a qualified surf instructor. Benjamin Baba Haruna has
been a surf instructor for the past 9 years and have participated in several
surfing competition in Ghana and also provide support to local surfers in
Ghana. He has been giving free surf lessons and
swimming lessons to children in Busua. Surfing has become popular in Ghana and
most of all in Busua where it first began.
Our Vision
Since our project is in Busua, we believe
as an educational NGO, we must do more aside working in the classroom and
construction. We have the perfect opportunity to teach swimming and surfing
lessons to children in the community for free and its surroundings. This way we are not
only supporting them academically but also helping them to gain knowledge in
the areas of swimming and surfing for self-development. They can become
life-guards and surf instructors which can become a good job opportunity for
them in Busua.
Teach on the Beach wants to keep
implementing swimming and surfing lessons as part of their program but we need
your help!
Your Tasks
We need volunteers, experts in swimming,
surfers, teachers/trainers to volunteer their time to help us educate the
children in Busua and beyond.
