Australia’s first all-Afghan lifesaving team has competed at their first Life Saving Victoria Victorian State Championships today in Lorne, as part of the traditional lifesaving R&R (Rescue & Resuscitation) events.
The five-member all-female lifesaving team from …
After nearly two years of swimming lessons and industry training, 15 inspiring Somali youth from Melbourne’s inner suburbs have graduated from an LSV initiative designed to create jobs, raise diversity within the aquatics industry and address the worrying water safety …
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 …
