WESTERN CAPEFriday, 11th December 2015Sea Rescue partners with Western Cape Education Department to teach children water safety:Sea Rescue’s educational initiative, The WaterWise Academy, is partnering with the Western Cape’s Education Department to teach children about water safety.“We are exploring ways ...
Andrew Ingram, Sea Rescue volunteer with 35 years service, and NSRI marketing manager, talked to Classic FM's Tamara LePine-Williams about water safety. Click play below to listen to the interview.[audio mp3='http://www.nsri.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WaterSafety-Classic-Lifestyle-with-Andrew-Ingram-2.mp3'][/audio] ...
Today Karen Kennedy & Ian Livermore, two Coxswain’s from Station 5 Durban, took the time to give a WaterWise talk at Hillcrest Primary School.Both volunteers completed the WaterWise Academy program on the NSRI eLearning to be able to give the ...
Today volunteer WaterWise Instructors, and one full time instructor, greeted 400 learners from Hyacinth Primary as they arrived at the Sea Point Pavilion. The pupils were taken to the grassed area well away from the water, and given a refresher ...
NSRI Director Viola Manuel today visited a WaterWise lesson at Agterwitzenberg VGK Primary, a farm school near Ceres. After watching WaterWise Instructor Eoudia Erasmus presenting water safety to the foundation phase children Viola joined in teaching the children the emergency ...
A big thank you to Ogilvy Cape Town who have recognised our WaterWise Academy’s milestone of teaching over 800 000 children how to do CPR with this billboard that they designed at no charge. Also thanks to Tractor Outdoor who ...
On Friday 11 September, the day before a teenager drowned at Camps Bay, teachers and pupils from Nkqubela Primary school in Robertson visited Camps Bay beach. The excited children ran straight down to the waters edge - unaware that the ...
Our WaterWise Academy Instructors, from as far afield as Soweto, Eshowe, Gugulethu and Ceres, have all gathered in Grabouw for the annual WaterWise conference. Kicking off with a team building bread making session the team then moved into teaching techniques ...
We are proud to announce that the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation South Africa has sponsored Sea Rescue’s WaterWise Academy in Eden.H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco said, “ Some of my present and future projects for my Foundation are underlining ...
NSRI's Wilderness based WaterWise Academy Instructor, Liza Wigley, sent us some photographs that she took during the water safety classes that she gave last month. Teaching children about water safety is Liza's passion. You can see it in the children's ...
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