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10 years old twin sisters drown and died in a pond in a pagoda when they come to join school party

Kandal : Young twin sisters drowned and died in a pond in pagoda when they came to join school party. Before the incident, they were walking around the pond, and then they fell into the pond around 9:45 am on 4 April 2015.
Police said, one of the girl names Lim Narath 10 year old and the other one names Lim Nara 10 years old. They are twin and they are studying at Preak Ho primary school.
Source from the scene, on that day the young twin sisters came to join school party celebrated inside the pagoda and when they arrived. They were holding hands walking and running around the pond, and then they both fell into the pond together. Having seen this other students went to report it to the teacher, but it was too late.




3 siblings died after drowned in Steng Sen River, Kompong Thom

Kompong Thom, three young boys and girl drowned and died after they went to swim in Steng Sen river. This tragedy occurred around 11:30 am on 5 April 2015 at Steng Sen river located in Chouk village, Chouk commune, Prasat Sambo district, Kompong Thom province.
The names of the victims are below:
1. Khun Sreyoun, female, 14 years old
2. Khun Tokla, male, 13 years old
3. Khun Chantha, male, 9 year old
A high school girl drowned and died at Yak Lom Lake

Rathanakiri: The dead body of a young school girl who had drowned at Yak Lom Lake just was found by the police around 5:30 pm on 7 April 2015. The dead body had been transported by ambulance and kept at Rathanakiri pagoda waiting for family to come and receive.
According to the source from the scene, she came to visit Rathanakiri with her grandmother. She drowned when she was walking along the bank of the lake and fell into the water. The accident occurred around 2:40 pm on 7 April 2015 at Yak Lom Lake located in Yak Lom district, Banlong city.

Jesus... Is it drowning season yet? Rainy season hasn't even started. What a shame. Just goes to show how knowing how to swim is so important. It would have been so easy to save all of them, especially those little girls by the school/pagoda. I find it peculiar how they drown in pairs or threes... We're they playing/pushing each other near the ledge? Or did one jump in to help the other?

Probably one jumped in after the other to save then. Scary.

Fuck. Teach CPR. Holding a child upside down does not "drain" the water.

Kids have a DIVE reflex that enables the brain to last a long time under water. Just plug their nose and breath for them through the mouth plus put pressure over the heart at the speed of a heart beat. Continue at least 20 minutes.

Milord wrote:Fuck. Teach CPR. Holding a child upside down does not "drain" the water.

Kids have a DIVE reflex that enables the brain to last a long time under water. Just plug their nose and breath for them through the mouth plus put pressure over the heart at the speed of a heart beat. Continue at least 20 minutes.

Yep, I repeat what I said..... I think Australian Surf lifesaver clubs would jump to the chance of teaching their skills here, If only someone could get the message out there to them.






OK, I know it's a stupid idea, but.
I know there would be a demand for a swimming pool that teaches kids to swim.

I know it does not cost a lot of $$$ to pour a slab of concrete, and have brick walls a metre high them have them plastered with a water resistant coating and have them painted.
A filtration system and ozone treatment system would be the most expensive part of the project, along with a lease agreement for a bit of land.
And when I say land , I am referring to places outside of the PP city and I will use Takhmau as an example where there plenty of vacant land.

All that is needed is someone to put forward the project through swimming clubs or surf clubs [ in Australia ] to raise some funds and have someone from those clubs or life saving clubs come on over to Cambodia to teach our kids to swim.

So what is there stopping a project like this going ahead. It will not be from lack of students cause I'm willing to pay for 6 kids.
To those of you who are sick of teaching English and working for someone else, here's your chance to have a real cool job that does not require you to wear a tie all day.

Duncan it sounds like this is your passion, so as a genuine question, why don't you go and do this? Make it happen rather than putting it on CEO and hoping someone else will do it..

There is water everywhere and no one can swim - or even float. Obvious that this must lead to tragedy but so sad.

I used to think that swimming, or at least not sinking, was innate in kids and puppies - that they would bob back up to the surface and thrash about if you threw them in.Obviously not.

Mrs Stroppy wrote:Duncan it sounds like this is your passion, so as a genuine question, why don't you go and do this? Make it happen rather than putting it on CEO and hoping someone else will do it..

Already in action
According to the May 2012 report, approximately 1,800 Cambodian children drown every year – a rate 10 times greater than those in rich nations. The median age of a child in Cambodia who has drowned is 4 years old, the report found.

David Hunt saves lives by teaching swimming in Cambodia

This school year he introduced a lifeguard training program at the iCAN British International School in Phnom Penh, where he works. The 30 teenagers in his class learned how to rescue someone using a rope, administer first aid, and retrieve and resuscitate an unconscious victim. They also know what to do if a boat capsizes, and how to help without endangering themselves.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a ... n-Cambodia

Mrs Stroppy wrote:Duncan it sounds like this is your passion, so as a genuine question, why don't you go and do this? Make it happen rather than putting it on CEO and hoping someone else will do it..

well your right, but I have done enough in my life time and now at my age I find I'm running out of energy to tackle any new projects. The best I can do is help spread the word, and if I was a Twitter fan or on Facebook , which I am not, I'm a computer dummy , I would send out the news items on drowning's, and this thread, to people who take an interest and can achieve more than I ever could.

Kuroneko wrote:

Mrs Stroppy wrote:Duncan it sounds like this is your passion, so as a genuine question, why don't you go and do this? Make it happen rather than putting it on CEO and hoping someone else will do it..

Already in action
According to the May 2012 report, approximately 1,800 Cambodian children drown every year – a rate 10 times greater than those in rich nations. The median age of a child in Cambodia who has drowned is 4 years old, the report found.

David Hunt saves lives by teaching swimming in Cambodia

This school year he introduced a lifeguard training program at the iCAN British International School in Phnom Penh, where he works. The 30 teenagers in his class learned how to rescue someone using a rope, administer first aid, and retrieve and resuscitate an unconscious victim. They also know what to do if a boat capsizes, and how to help without endangering themselves.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a ... n-Cambodia

Brilliant guy. And the article's worth the read - there are many reasons why drowning is such a big problem in Cambodia:

The astounding number of drowning victims means that the number of children who drown is greater than the number who die from malaria, HIV/AIDS, dengue, and traffic accidents. Drowning has been significantly underestimated because statistics were collected from hospitals, where children who drown are seldom taken, the report says.

The report also found that less than 10 percent of drowning victims received resuscitation from a trained responder, 40 percent received no resuscitation, and 50 percent were subjected to ineffective and harmful practices that included jumping on the chest to expel water, inserting sticks into the mouth to induce vomiting, and heating the body over a fire to try to get the water inside to dry up.

A year after the report was released, however, neither Cambodia's government nor the dozens of international aid organizations working in the country have developed a program to teach children to swim or train lifeguards.