{"id":1325,"date":"2010-03-21T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1325"},"modified":"2010-03-21T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T15:48:27","slug":"splish-splash-splosh-children-volunteers-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1325","title":{"rendered":"Splish, splash, splosh &#8211; children, volunteers, swimming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1326\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Emmy supporting a boy with a diability from Letaba school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0829-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Emmy supporting a boy with a diability from Letaba school\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0829-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0829-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0829.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Today while at Daktari, we had great pleasure in taking the children swimming.\u00a0 For many this was their first time.\u00a0 They did have a swimming pool at their school a few years ago but this has now been demolished.<\/p>\n<p>The children were aided by the volunteers to swim, splash around and have fun, as well as gentle relaxation enabling their muscles and limbs to be stretched. The warm water allowed many of the children to feel complete freedom from their restrictive limbs, offering muscles the support needed to create gravity defying movements.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the children who do not usually verbalise were being encouraged by two volunteers either side of them to move their arms through the water and say &#8216;swim&#8217;.\u00a0 This appeared to have a positive affect on the children, and also the volunteers who also had a great time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1327\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Stretching and swimming\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0817-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stretching and swimming\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0817-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0817-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0817.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hydrotherapy is used\u00a0 to support children with disabilities in their movements and to relax muscles as well as aiding confidence.\u00a0 It also has a therapeutic effect when relaxing in the water, allowing their body to float.\u00a0 By stretching muscles in water, physiotherapists use this to aid relaxation of tight muscles and to use stretching movements. It also allows children to move their limbs more freely in the water. The children from Letaba school were able to kick their legs, enabling them to move with support through the water, they did this on their back and on their front and were also encouraged to use their arms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1328\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Val working with Musa to encourage him to relax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0812-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Val working with Musa to encourage him to relax\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0812-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0812-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/img_0812.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe pool was filled with excitable faces and immense glee from bouncing balls being thrown back and forth across the pool.\u00a0 The children all appeared to be happy with excitment and laughter filling the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children and volunteers have a therapeutic and fun swim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}