Ep 21. Alice Dearing & Danielle Obe, Co-Founders & Chair, Black Swimming Association: Representation and creating Olympic history!
b'\\u201cThe BSA (Black Swimming Association) is set up as a bridge\\u2026 building bridges into disenfranchised and disengaged communities.\\u201d\\n\\nAlice Dearing made history at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as the first black female swimmer to represent Team GB at an Olympic Games. \\n\\nDanielle Obe is Chair of the Black Swimming Association, a charity that she co-founded along with Alice. \\n\\nThe Black Swimming Association (BSA) is a non-profit organisation set up to diversify the world of aquatics through education, advocacy, support and research. \\n\\nIn England currently 95% of black adults and 80% of black children don\\u2019t swim. Furthermore, black children are 3 times more likely to drown than white children (Source: Swim England) \\n\\nThe BSA is on a mission to change this. To break down barriers that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities face in aquatics and to highlight the importance of learning to swim, as an essential and invaluable life saving skill.\\n\\nAlice and Danielle, through the BSA, are determined to make aquatics safer\\xa0and\\xa0more accessible to their communities,\\xa0by inspiring and facilitating participation and inclusion for all.\\n\\nRecorded Sept 2021.'