WaterWise Eden kicks off for 2014:

Education, Water Safety, WaterWise / 7 February 2014

Children from Thembalethu Primary learning the emergency number 10177

WaterWise Instructor Liza Wigley reports:

It was with great anticipation that I awaited the new school year to start!  I was delighted to be back teaching the kids. When a teacher at MM Mateza Primary wrote on the presentation report, “The presenter has an interest and passion of her task”, it made me realise that that is what I feel, passionate about what I am doing.
I have been to mainly Xhosa speaking schools this term, and the teachers are doing an excellent job in translating for me.  There is always a teacher or two staying behind to chat, often about incidents that happened to them, from swimming in a rip current, to now knowing how to avoid it next time, to a grandchild almost drowning in a bucket of water while she was washing the car, and not knowing that it was possible for a child to drown in a bucket.

Luckily a family member immediately did CPR, and the infant was saved.
I am looking forward to the year ahead.

WaterWise Eden is kindly sponsored by the Department of Agriculture.

Children from Thembalethu Primary learning the emergency number 10177
Children from Thembalethu Primary learning the emergency number 10177.
Siphuxolo 8, demonstrating how he will push Njobulo 9 under the water if Njobulo had to swim to him to save his life, in the end, both will drown.
Siphuxolo 8, demonstrating how he will push Njobulo 9 under the water if Njobulo had to swim to him to save his life, in the end, both will drown.
Pupils from MM Mateza Primary, eager to try CPR.
Pupils from MM Mateza Primary, eager to try CPR.
Francois Prins 9, throwing a towel to Cornay Stoffels 8, demonstrating how to save a friend without drowning as well.
Francois Prins 9, throwing a towel to Cornay Stoffels 8, demonstrating how to save a friend without drowning as well.
Liza Wigley from WaterWise Eden visitite Kretzenshoop Primary, here the pupils are learning the emergency number 10177.
Liza Wigley from WaterWise Eden visitite Kretzenshoop Primary, here the pupils are learning the emergency number 10177.