One death is too many: Life-saving society focuses on Manitoba newcomers – Winnipeg [Video]

It’s National Drowning Prevention Week, and Manitoba’s life-saving organization says it’s focusing its public education campaign on newcomer communities.

“This year, for National Drowning Prevention Week, we’re looking at partnerships and community as our overall theme,” said Christopher Love, water smart and safety management co-ordinator with Lifesaving Society Manitoba.

“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.

That’s on top of the year-round outreach the society is already doing with newcomers to Manitoba.

“We do a lot of work with newcomers. We do …