Stop drownings in EU-Educate & save a child's life

Safe Water Sports, the Organization that promotes safety in the aquatic environment, has opened its doors to the schools in order to facilitate educational visits at its promises. Precisely, the Organization has officially launched ''Ocean Lab'' an educational, interactive place where students are invited at no cost to attend a two-hour interactive kind of lesson through technologically based games.

For the  school year of 2022-2023 more than 5.363 students visited Ocean Lab where they learned about their safety in the water through the use of technology. The Organization managed to win the Gold Award at the Education Leaders Awards 2023 regrarding the educational visits of students and schools at Ocean Lab.

Since John Latsis Foundation supports this action by covering the transportation cost of all students from primary or high schools located in the region of Athens, we do plan and hope for the next year to reach more than 5000 students but also to create
digital or even physical ''Ocean Labs'' throughout Greece!

Additionally, the Organization presented the 3rd annual statistical report presenting that 379 people lost their lives at sea in 2022. Since the numbers are really high we truly believe that the education should start from a very earling point even at babies through the Safe Swimming Program the Organization has created that addresses to babies up to children of 12 years of of age.

Links:

• Safe Water Sports website
• Observatory of accidents in the aquatic environment 2022

• Corporate profile SWS 2022 (PDF)
  

Safe Water Sports, the Organization that promotes safety in the aquatic environment, has opened its doors to the schools in order to facilitate educational visits at its promises. Precisely, the Organization has officially launched ''Ocean Lab'' an educational, interactive place where students are invited at no cost to attend a two-hour interactive kind of lesson through technologically based games.

Additioanlly, the John Latsis Foundation supports this action by covering the transportation cost of all students from primary or high schools located in the region of Athens. So far, more thatn 700 students have visited our premises.

Our next goal is to create digital or even physical ''Ocean Labs'' through out Greece!

Another goal for the Organization is to promote even greater safety and education to children where they do not have any kind of access to swimming pools. This can be done by communicating with Municipalities and facilitating the process of sea-based swimming pools that will be open to the public six months each year. This is a way to reassure that swimming classes can be given not only to young children but also to the elderly given the fact that 82 % of those who lose their lives at sea, in Greece, are over 60.

In the following months, the Organization will also produce the new 'Observatory of accidents' regarding drownings and accidents in the aquatic environment from 2018-2022.

Last, but not least, another goal is to create a wider range of educational online games where  children can learn about their safety at sea or in the swimming pool through a fun way.

Links:

• website
• educational visits

• Corporate profile 2022 (PDF)