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Crisis in Lebanon Doesn’t Stop Aqua-Tots Owner

Lebanese Aqua-Tots franchisee Tania Kosmos is operating her swim school amid the most severe economic and financial crisis in her country’s modern history. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the meltdown, and then came the catastrophic explosion of the Port of Beirut in 2020, which killed at least 218 people, injured 7,000 others, and blew out the windows of her Aqua-Tots location, only eight miles away. Learn about her spirit of resilience, how Aqua-Tots franchisees from around the globe mobilized to support her, and how Aqua-Tots’ core value of “relationships over profits” translated across borders.

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