Senegal beach fitness club offers hope and healing through water aerobics

In the small coastal village of Ngor, just outside Dakar, the beach is becoming a communal gym every Saturday morning. Here, people of all ages and physical abilities meet not just for sports and leisure, but also for recovery.

The Club des Dauphins de Ngor is an aquagym programme that helps people with physical disabilities improve their mobility and manage chronic pain.

Some of its members arrive in wheelchairs. Others are guided to…