Get Involved

You can help more families stay safe in the water in five ways: volunteer, partner with us, host a water-safety workshop, share our free resources, or share the story behind them in Enduring Bonds. None of them costs anything. This website does not ask for money.

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Volunteer

Volunteers help us reach families who might never search for water-safety advice on their own. You might:

• share water-safety resources in your neighborhood, school or place of worship;
• help at workshops and community events;
• translate, for example into Bengali (a fluent reviewer checks every translation before we mark it reviewed);
• help with design, writing or video.

Sign up to volunteer. The form is for adults 18 and older, and it asks only for what we need to reply.

Partner with us

We would like to work with schools, camps, faith and cultural communities, aquatics programs, libraries and emergency responders. A partnership can be as simple as putting our checklists in your welcome packet, or as big as planning a workshop series together.

We name an organization as a partner on this site only after it agrees. Tell us about your organization.

Host a water-safety workshop

You don't need to be an expert to run a good workshop. Our free lesson plans give you the plan, the activities and a take-home section, and every fact in them is sourced.

1. Pick your audience. Parents, teens, a youth group, camp counselors, babysitters or adults who never learned to swim.
2. Choose a lesson plan from the lesson plan library: there are plans for parents, community groups, faith communities and camp counselors, plus classroom plans from kindergarten to grade 12.
3. Add hands-on CPR if you can. In New York City, the FDNY Free CPR Program (opens in a new tab) teaches free 30-minute hands-only CPR and AED classes. Its mobile unit can come to your venue for groups of 15 to 50 people; ask at least 14 days ahead (opens in a new tab). It is not a certification class.
4. Print the handouts from the printables library so every family leaves with a checklist.
5. Point people to free follow-up learning, such as the American Red Cross's free online water-safety courses for parents and caregivers (opens in a new tab), offered in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Our guide to hosting a water-safety workshop walks through each step. If you'd like to talk it over first, ask us about a workshop.

Share free resources

Sharing is one of the simplest ways to help, and it's free.

• Embed an infographic on your website or blog. Each infographic has an embed code that keeps a credit link back to its sources. Please keep the credit.
• Print a checklist or poster for your fridge, classroom, pool deck or community board.
• Send a guide to a friend who is planning a beach trip, a pool party or a first swim lesson.
• Share the kids' games at games.aminfoundation.io. They collect nothing and show no ads.

Please don't change the facts in our materials or remove their sources. If you need a version for a special purpose, contact us.

The book: Enduring Bonds

Enduring Bonds is a memoir by our founder, Faruque Amin, about siblings and sibling loss. It is published by Starling Publishing LLC and is in production. Its afterword is about water safety, and QR codes in the book open pages on this website. The Enduring Bonds companion page brings those pages together.

You can help by sharing the companion page with a book club, a grief group or a friend who has lost a brother or sister. To hear when the book is published, get email updates.

What you can do today

• Sign up to volunteer or get email updates.
• Download one lesson plan and pick a date for a workshop.
• Share one infographic with a group you belong to.
• Read how to find swim lessons and pass it on to a family who needs it.