Mission
Every day, about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger. Drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.1
From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day.1 An additional 332 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.2
About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger.1 For every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.1
See references here.
How We Fit In?
For every Stitched Swim bathing suit you purchase, a donation bathing suit is donated to a child at a local Swim Program to better equip their efforts to learn to swim. We hope to increase our ability to help more directly in sponsoring swimming lessons/programs in the future so stay tuned! We can't thank you enough.