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Bangladesh: Teaching Swimming, Saving Lives

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The Pulitzer Center's Jon Sawyer and Kem Knapp Sawyer report from Bangladesh on innovative programs that combine supervised child care and low-cost swim instruction to combat deaths by drowning, which UNICEF calls the biggest cause of mortality in Bangladesh for children between the ages of 1 and 17.

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