The 500 Sails\u2019 Dolphin Club recently concluded its Shelter Children swimming program due to the start of classes in public and private schools. <\/p>\n
According to 500 Sails president Emma Perez, the Dolphin Club recently took a break from its regular adult swim classes to accommodate a new program that would teach shelter children how to swim. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe kind of took a break from adult swimming to focus on swim classes for the kids living in shelters,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Perez said the purpose of the program was to occupy the attention of children during such a troubled time and to give parents the opportunity to go to work or just take a break while their children were off learning to swim.<\/p>\n
Perez said since the devastation of Super Typhoon Yutu, 500 Sails has gone out of its way to pick up all interested shelter children and bring them to Pau Pau Beach where they\u2019d swim for most of the day. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe picked up the shelter kids, since they\u2019re out of school, and three days a week we\u2019ve been teaching the kids how to swim\u2026First, we were catering to the kids sheltered at the Marianas High School shelter but we later started picking up kids at Tanapag Elementary School and Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School and taking them to Pau Pau,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Perez said the swimming program stemmed from the original Gamsun project that was created to prepare high school students to pass the swim test needed to become official lifeguards. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt came out of the Gamsun project, which was started before the typhoon. That\u2019s a project\u2026to get high school students ready to pass the swim test needed to take a lifeguard class\u2026\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
The students participating in the Gamsun project also volunteered to clean up the typhoon debris that littered the beach by the Guma Sakman in Susupe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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