The children, and a handful of adults, are being taught to swim by volunteers.
When Viv is not mothering or writing she is most likely to be: trying to sleep, reading, volunteering, swimming, at the cinema, drinking tea, and campaigning for a fairer world.
The volunteers whose heat loss came almost entirely from their heads (those who were fully submerged whilst wearing insulating clothing) lost only half as much heat as those whose heat loss came almost entirely from their bodies (the volunteers in swimming costumes with their heads poking out of the water).
We detected a slight but significant increase in lung epithelial permeability, as estimated by serum CC16, in healthy adult volunteers after swimming in a chlorinated pool.
In her sixties she volunteered as a swimming teacher for local children and as an animal activists helped rescue sea turtles along California's coast well into her nineties.
Food is David's life — well, food and swimming and volunteering and student council and green rooftops (his school, Fieldston, has one).
Katerina was beginning to thrive — she attended a nursery school, at which Nicola was a frequent volunteer, and she took swimming lessons and gymnastics.
Volunteers swam slowly along it in pairs, marking down the species they saw.
I volunteered at the British Gas swimming championships in March, which was a qualifying event for the Games.
I started teaching swimming at the age of 12, as a volunteer at Children's Hospital in San Diego.
