Knowing How to Swim is a program developed since 2022 by EDF, premium partner of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in collaboration with Paris 2024 and the French Swimming Federation to prevent the risk of drowning on the territory. The objective is to enable thousands of young people to learn to swim by Paris 2024, thus responding to a real public health challenge (in France, 1 child in 2 does not know how to swim when entering 6th grade in some territories). Knowing how to swim is part of the EDF group’s heritage program enJeux d’avenir 2024.
This Tuesday, May 30, the EDF group, premium partner of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, organized a Know How to Swim operation at the Cercle des Nageurs de Marseille. A day of initiation to learning to swim for young people from Marseille. In the presence of the members of the EDF Team Florent Manaudou, Charlotte Bonnet and Marc-Antoine Olivier, there were around a hundred young people from Marseille who were able to benefit from the advice of Olympic medalists while taking part in various introductory water sports workshops. The organization of this event in Marseille was symbolic, as nearly 50% of the city’s pupils cannot swim when they enter 6th grade.
A few days before Marseille, on May 26 in Limoges, EDF was able to capitalize on its presence at the Para Swimming World Series at the Aquapolis to create a meaningful moment, at the crossroads of the main commitments of its “enJeux d’avenir 2024”: change the way people look at disability and support learning to swim. Beyond the spectacle that the competition offered to the 2,000 spectators who came to support the 150 swimmers, from 29 nations, the event opened its mythical pool to a Savoir Nager operation, organized by EDF as part of the program supported by Paris 2024 and the FFN, for 30 children from local schools. 25 children from a local elementary school, as well as 5 young people with disabilities from the Motor Education Institute of Couzeix were able to take an introductory swimming course, then a fun treasure hunt game in the water, supervised by the coaches of the French disabled swimming team, and in the company of Théo Curin, Paralympic swimmer from Team EDF.
Photos: credit EDF
