I don’t think the reality of what I had achieved really sank in until I was sitting in a TV studio, five seconds from going on air, and about to take part in a whole one hour chat show about me. That experience was just one of many in a totally overwhelming week following a swim I completed across the Bangla Channel off the coast of Bangladesh. Newspaper interviews, photo shoots, various visits to TV newsrooms and people coming up to me in the street. Everyone congratulating me and saying how proud they were I had done this swim in their country. But most importantly they were so grateful for why I had done the swim – to raise awareness of the terrible problem of drowning in Bangladesh, where 50 children a day die in the water.
50 CHILDREN A DAY DIE IN THE WATER IN BANGLADESH