For this month’s volunteer profile, we catch up with Bonbeach LSC youth patroller Zaabi Jalali, who is now into his fourth season at the club and is also one of LSV’s casual multicultural team members.
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An LSV public safety campaign focused on helping public pool operators to better communicate with vulnerable swimmers about water safety, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, has been recognised for its innovation and evidence-based research.
The SwimSafe …
The myriad paths taken by former lifeguards and lifesavers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are the focus of a new and inspiring series of Life Saving Victoria (LSV) videos.
Released last month by LSV’s Multicultural Services team, LSV’s …
In the past decade, Life Saving Victoria’s Multicultural Services department has trained around 130 lifesaving club volunteers, 260 pool lifeguards and 60 swim teachers, but it has been the aquatic centres and lifesaving clubs that have benefitted the most.
Bonbeach …
When it comes to teaching water safety to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in the classroom, at the beach and in the swimming pool, Life Saving Victoria’s Multicultural Services team continues to go from strength to strength.
The multicultural …
Staying strong and united amid uncertainty has been at the forefront of many Life Saving Victoria (LSV) actions taken over the past month in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
It hasn’t been an easy time – all of us …
Vancouver played host to the 2017 World Conference on Drowning Prevention, bringing 800 delegates from 60 countries together to exchange ideas on reducing death and injury in aquatic environments with the theme: Share Globally, Prevent Locally.
The conference is the …