It's National Drowning Prevention Week, and Manitoba's life-saving organization says it's focusing its public education campaign on newcomer communities.
Lifesaving Society Manitoba 's Christopher Love says the focus for this year's Drowning Prevention Week is on newcomer communities.It’s National Drowning Prevention Week, and Manitoba’s life-saving organization says it’s focusing its public education campaign on newcomer communities.
“Here in Manitoba, we really dug into that and went with working with newcomers, because that is a group that we have unfortunately seen has had far too many tragedies occur.” Love told Global Winnipeg the organization has plans for educational events in Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie and Altona this week, in partnership with local groups that provide immigrant and newcomer resources.“We do a lot of work with newcomers.
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