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\u201cSaldanhabaai Munisipaliteit het \u2019n dapper stap geneem om die munisipaliteit se eie lewensredders aan te stel. Die stap is nie net deel van die munisipaliteit se toewyding om vakansiegangers en strandbesoekers veilig te hou nie, maar vorm ook deel van die munisipale jeugontwikkelingsprogram,\u201d het SBM-burgermeester Andr\u00e9 Truter ges\u00ea tydens die bekendstellingsgeleentheid vanoggend (18 Desember) by Saldanhabaai-strand langs die kampterrein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Carol Feris van SBM Rampbestuur, wat die verrigtinge gelei het, het verduidelik dat die munisipaliteit hande gevat het met die Nasionale Seereddingsinstituut (NSRI) en 15 plaaslike jeugdiges deur \u2019n intensiewe opleidingsprogram geneem het om as waardige lewensredders by vyf strande in die SBM-gebied aangestel te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Voordat die verrigtinge begin het, het SBSI (Saldanha Bay Safety Initiative) ko\u00f6rdineerder Joey Pieters met Skriflesing en gebed geopen. Hy het gelees uit Jesaja 41:10: \u201cMoet nie bang wees nie, want Ek is met julle. Ek is jou God. Ek versterk jou.\u201d<\/em>
Pieters het die lewensredders beskryf as jong mense wat gekies is vir \u2019n spesifieke doel en wat vertrou word om strandbesoekers veilig te hou. Hy het hulle aangemoedig om eienaarskap van die strande te neem en nie bang te wees om hul mandaat uit te voer nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Julle is nie alleen nie. God is met julle en sal vir julle leiding gee,\u201d het Pieters ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feris het daarop gewys dat verdrinking w\u00eareldwyd \u2019n groot kommer is en dat die feestyd, hoewel dit \u2019n tyd van vreugde is, ook onsekerheid bring oor die veiligheid van veral kinders. Lewensredders sal tydens die feestyd armbande aan kinders uitdeel waarop hul name geskryf word, sodat verdwaalde kinders vinniger met hul ouers herenig kan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Feris het beklemtoon dat nooddienste mekaar nodig het. Die aanstelling van SBM-lewensredders is deel van die munisipaliteit se sosiale verantwoordelikheid, nie net om mense veilig te hou nie, maar ook om plaaslike jeugontwikkeling te bevorder.
\u201cOns het \u2019n gesamentlike doel om lewens op strande te red en terselfdertyd ons plaaslike jeug te ontwikkel,\u201d het sy ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Truter het in sy toespraak ges\u00ea dat proaktiwiteit lewens red. Hy het die jeugontwikkelingsprogram ondersteun en genoem dat die lewensredders wat tydens die feesseisoen die strande beveilig, in die wintermaande ander vaardighede sal aanleer. Hy het elkeen aangemoedig om hoop en bemagtiging terug te neem na hul gemeenskappe.
Voordat die veiligheidstoerusting, wat deur plaaslike besighede en gemeenskapslede geborg is, oorhandig is, het Truter aan elke lewensredder 30 sekondes gegee om hulself voor te stel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die dapper span het elk die mikrofoon geneem en boodskappe soos die volgende gedeel:
\u2022 \u201cOm dapperheid te wys in die gemeenskap, gee ander hoop.\u201d
\u2022 \u201cEk het as kind amper verdrink, en is trots om vandag op die strand uit te stap as \u2019n lewensredder en te weet ek kan iemand in nood help of \u2019n lewe red.\u201d
\u2022 \u201cOm \u2019n lewensredder te wees, gee vir my doelwitte in die lewe, en so kan ek ander inspireer.\u201d
\u2022 \u201cEk wil seker maak dat enigeen wat ons mooi strande besoek, ingelig is oor die gevaar van die see en rotse, nie almal besef dat selfs vlak water \u2019n gevaar kan wees nie.\u201d
\u2022 \u201cMy vriend het verdrink toe ek klein was, en ek het van daardie tyd af geweet ek wil eendag \u2019n lewensredder wees om ander mense die pyn van verlies te spaar.\u201d
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Simeon Robinson vertel dat hy as lewensredder gereed is en volle vertroue in sy opleiding het om lewens op die strande te red tydens die feesseisoen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Die lewensredders se spanleier, Nicolas Wilsnach, het afgesluit met \u2019n kragtige boodskap:
\u201c\u2019n Lewensredder is meer as net \u2019n gemeenskapsheld. Dit is \u2019n rol wat gedefinieer word deur waaksaamheid, dissipline en beslissende optrede, waar die ware maatstaf van diens nie erkenning is nie, maar lewens wat gered word wanneer elke sekonde tel.\u201d
Feris het elkeen bedank wat bygedra het tot die suksesvolle bekendstelling van die SBM-lewensreddingspan.
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Burgermeester Truter het afgesluit:
\u201cOns het vandag nie net lewensredders aangestel nie \u2013 ons het hoop, dissipline en gemeenskapskrag op die strande van Saldanhabaai geplant. Elke jongmens wat hier staan, dra die verantwoordelikheid om lewens te beskerm en gemeenskappe te bemagtig. Geen vakansieganger mag ooit sy of haar lewe op ons strande verloor nie. Met hierdie span se toewyding en ons gemeenskap se ondersteuning bou ons \u2019n toekoms waar veiligheid en jeugontwikkeling hand aan hand loop. Saldanhabaai se strande is nie net \u2019n plek van ontspanning nie, maar \u2019n simbool van ons gesamentlike verantwoordelikheid en saam kan ons sorg dat elke besoeker veilig huis toe gaan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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