Great Lakes Life Saving - East Africa

Day1 of our survival swimming and ditching preparedness rescue training. Meet our trainees cabin crew students from DAS Aviation School. We continue to ensure safety for all on water and during times of emergencies.
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If first aid is given by a well trained person it can save a life and the reverse is true. Seek first aid skills before you become the only person available in an emergency.

Day 1 of our first aid training at DAS Aviation school. We did CPR and recovery position with cabin crew students to prepare them for any emergencies that may arise in their line of duty.

First aid skills are essential in our daily operations and everyone needs them to save their loved ones and clients in case of any emergency.

We are heading to Perth Australia December 2023 for the World Conference on Drowning Prevention. This will hoist our efforts in drowning prevention in Uganda.

Are you a company, NGO or an individual looking for competent service providers in swimming lessons, fire fighting training, occupational safety and health, scuba services lifeguard training, first aid training and aviation ditching preparation for pilots and cabin crews.
Call us and our best servicemen shall be at your service.

It a great honor to have different kinds people turn up for the National Life Saving camp. Appreciation to and other individuals who participated and made a tremendous contribution towards the safety of their communities. Together we can save lives as become ambassadors of safety.

The National Life Saving Camp is here from 2nd to 5th September 2022 at Ben's beach camping site. Are you a medic, lifeguard, firefighter or interested in learning swimming, fire fighting and first aid this is a camp you must attend to gain skills in saving lives. It could be you, a relative or friend that will benefit from your skills from this camp, a skilled life saving a community is a safe one.






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We engaged medical responders, lifeguards and the community in an evacuation procedure simulation of drowning victims. With a proper chain of response we can save more lives after a rescue. Now the community of Jinja can rescue a victim, give CPR and call for an evacuation.

Most fatalities caused by drowning are a result of poor or no CPR after a rescue.
Happening now! Community CPR training
We thank Uganda red cross, Tweyambe Emergency Services, Black Marines and our partners Life Saving Association Uganda who fully made this day fruitful to the community of Jinja.

Commemoration of World Drowning Prevention Day has kicked off at Brisk Hotel Triangle Jinja.

Join us in commemorating the World Drowning Prevention Day at Brisk Hotel Jinja on 25th July 2022.

This years’ World Drowning Prevention Day theme invites stakeholders from all sectors to do one thing that advances efforts to prevent drowning.

Some examples are provided below:
More details: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-drowning-prevention-day/2022

Ahead of the WHO World Drowning Prevention Day to be celebrated at Hotel Brisk Triangle Jinja on 25th July 2022, We carried out joint lifesaving Games and first responders care at Olympia Hostel Swimming Pool on 10th July 2022. We appreciate our partners from Life Saving Association Uganda and Black Marines for the tremendous efforts towards water safety.
With strong partnerships we believe a lot will be achieved in preventing drowning cases in the globe, drowning does not discriminate age or body weight everyone is at risk but the good news is that we can prevent it.

Our Lifeguards, Life Saving Association and Entebbe Lifeguards Association celebrating the international water safety day. On this day we have set up a common strategy to prevent drowning in East Africa and we also had a launch of Life Saving sport by Mr Mukasa George, Great Lakes Life Saving continues to train communities survival swimming.

In communities around Lake Victoria 1/5 people know how to swim, these communities are prone to water. You never know when you will use water transport or fall in the deep end of a swimming pool. Come train with us every weekend 2pm at Entebbe Botanical gardens for free.

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Drowning is silent, quick and 100% preventable, yet it’s a leading cause of injury-related death in children and adults. Our training seek to create a generational shift in how water safety education is discussed and shared between parents, children, and beyond.
Drowning has no gender or age, our training involved girls and boys at Bugonga landing site as drowning cases are rampant in this community.

One of our successful campaigners Richard managed to get his project fully funded

Here at GLSS we have looked around the world for organisations we can respect and learn from. One such organisation is Pakistan Life Saving. They are not yet 20 years in existence, but they are one of the most creative water safety and lifeguarding non-profit organisations. They manufacture their own equipment to save costs and create jobs, they run small tourism activities to generate steady income, and they partner with government agencies and NGOs.

Have a look at their amazing website www.pals.pk

Like GLSS, Pakistan Life Saving (PALS) had support in its early days from the team at Pacific Lifeguard Systems. If we can make GLLS even half as fantastic as PALS we will be hugely successful.

Thanks to the teams at PALS for showing us that we can achieve our dreams, and thanks for the team at Pacific Lifeguard Systems for setting us on the right path.

Hi and welcome to the new page for Great Lakes Life Saving. We are based in Entebbe, Uganda but we are active right across Uganda and also Kenya and Tanzania because we share borders across the huge and magnificent Lake Victoria (the world's second largest lake!). We also work with our water safety friends in all East and Central Africa countries.

We are trained lifeguards, water safety instructors, some SCUBA trained for underwater search and recovery, and many of us are trained in emergency first aid.

Our focus is on drowning prevention through water safety education, and training lifeguards for pools and beaches. But we also work with governments and NGOs to create water safety programmes and standards, and we fundraise for equipment and training costs.

We have many organisations we are working with closely and we will introduce you to these in coming days and weeks.

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