The Rotary club of Royal Hua Hin started their long-awaited water safety program this weekend.
A team of Australian Instructors arrived in Thailand as part of the Global Aquatic Project in response to high numbers of preventable deaths by drowning in Asia.
The team travelled to Chiang Mai, and then onto Phuket where the Rotary Club of Royal Hua Hin (RCRHH) sent 10 volunteer instructors to be trained by the team to deliver water safety training to schools here in Hua Hin.
The team was led by Charter President Alan Cooper and Rotarian Kamolthip Pettit. And we were also joined by the Rotary Club of Patong Beach and the Rotary Club of Samui-Phangan, who are both sister clubs of the RCRHH.
In March, the pilot program will start at the Bo Fai School in Hua Hin.
Drowning is the highest cause of fatalities in children under the age of 15, so this will be a worthwhile project to help protect the young people of Hua Hin.