More children learn to swim in Taiwan

The Ministry of Education hopes to enable more children in Taiwan to learn to swim to cut down on the number of lives lost in drowning accidents each year. Vice Minister of Education Wu Tsai-shun said Taiwan is a country surrounded by the sea with many rivers and streams. Many people in Taiwan, both old and young, do not know how to swim however. Some 278 children drowned between 2005 and last year. The majority were elementary or high school students. The Ministry of Education says it wants to increase both the number of schools offering swimming lessons and the number of students learning to swim by ten percent.

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