In May 2011, 3 of our members travelled to Da Nang, Vietnam to attend the World Conference on Drowning Prevention. This event brought together over 400 individuals from 50 countries to discuss important issues surrounding the global epidemic of drowning. While there, our founders, Justin and Andrew, presented original research [...]
Lifeguards Without Borders teamed up with Paul Dunning and his California-based Project Ecudaor in 2011 to help protect Ecuadorian beach-goers during the busy Carnaval holiday. Project Ecuador has been responsible for sending lifeguards to coastlines throughout the country since 2006, and this year the Lifeguards Without Borders team was responsible for the [...]
In 2009, Justin made a trip Bangladesh where he observed and assisted in community drowning prevention campaigns in rural areas with the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB) and met with local lifeguards to help curb the exorbitant number of drownings that take place there. To give the problem some scope, Bangladesh [...]
As a follow up to our extremely successful 2007 trip to Peru, Lifeguards Without Borders decided to take the next step in ensuring program sustainability and developed a curriculum for training local Peruvian lifeguards to be instructors. After asking the Peruvian National Lifeguards and the Peruvian Association of Volunteer Lifeguards [...]
In 2008, our members planned a forum for kids and parents alike to receive information on water safety that emphasizes that the whole community shares a stake in the welfare of children around the water. We started close to home, focusing on the Carver Community Center in Jacksonville Beach. Here, we found very [...]
Thanks to some coordination with fellow lifeguard Martin Hedstrom and the local firefighters near his home in the dominican, we were able to hold a water safety class on the beach in Juan Dolio. The scope of the class was focused primarily on rescuer safety and the “Reach-Throw” portion of lay-response. [...]
In the summer of 2005, our first major project was the development of a 2-day water safety course for Jamaica’s first national Search and Rescue Team. Faced with this seemingly impossible task, especially in light of the fact that 80% of the class did not know how to swim, the [...]
