A unique training initiative, aimed at increasing diversity within rural communities and strengthening Ambulance Victoria’s operational workforce, has its first graduates.
The Multicultural Employment Pathways program is a partnership between Life Saving Victoria and Ambulance Victoria to train young people …
Life Saving Victoria’s Multicultural Department has created a water safety and recreation program for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) seniors.
“Australians aged 55 and over make up a large proportion of the drowning statistics in Australia and as the population …
Brighton Life Saving Club (LSC) hosted over 40 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) participants at its fifth annual Water Safety for Refugees Day recently.
The refugees from Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and Iran travelled from Dandenong for the day facilitated by …
The Victorian aquatic industry welcomes two new African recruits into it’s ranks, with LSV multicultural ambassadors Abdullahi Mohammed and Nyaduoth Lok gaining employment.
Somalian-born Abdullahi now works as a lifeguard at Coburg Leisure Centre and educates school children as an …
A recently released Royal Life Saving Australia report has found that 27 per cent of drowning deaths in Australia over the last ten years involved someone born overseas.
Between the 2005/6 and 2014/15 financial years 762 people born overseas drowned …
Life Saving Victoria’s Multicultural Department has proudly accepted a VicHealth Growing Participation in Sport grant.
The ‘Key to Aquatics Project’ will provide innovative swimming and water safety education programs to Victoria’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Communities over the next …
Over the last decade almost 20% of people who drowned in Victoria were born overseas, leading LSV to train and recruit lifesavers from migrant communities to reach this audience with safety messages. As part of this push, Bonbeach LSC has …
Over 50 local, South Sudanese young people made a splash at Frankston Beach last month as they and their families participated in an active beach education day run by Life Saving Victoria (LSV).
The program, developed and delivered by LSV’s …
LSV is proud to announce the third year of its successful African Community Pathways Initiative, funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation (LMCF). The news comes as the program celebrates completion of its two-year target to engage 1,340 direct participants, …
The Victorian Government is featuring one of Bonbeach Life Saving Club’s award-winning Multicultural Surf Rescue Certificate course participants in its ‘Victorian. And Proud of it’ campaign.
Elyas, an 18 year old originally from Afghanistan, is the subject of a virtual …
