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Swimming Program Aims To Keep Idaho Refugees Safe

Ethan Webber
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Boise State Public Radio

In the summer of 2017, a 15-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic drowned in Boise’s Quinn’s Pond, a recreational swimming hole. Then last week, a 21-year-old Congolese refugee also drowned there. So what’s being done to prevent these tragedies? We talk with Danny Abedi, a refugee who helped start a refugee swimming programwith the International Rescue Committee.

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