The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation has revealed the newest partnership in its ongoing drowning prevention campaign.
Despite the Princess being still away from the public eye as she continues her recovery from a mystery illness in Monaco, it seems clear that she has been working behind the scenes to facilitate this new partnership.
The Foundation will be working with Aqwa Itineris, an organisation that offers a mobile swimming pool for the Foundation’s program.
Many small communities have no access to a traditional swimming pool, resulting in many children not learning how to swim or the proper water safety rules, and many people drown, particularly children.
But for these small communities, the costs of investing in the building of a traditional swimming pool is not always sustainable, which means that many people are cut out from receiving the proper life-saving training.
This is where Aqwa Itineris’s mobile pool comes in. They offer a portable swimming pool, 8 metres long, 2.10 metres wide and with a depth adjustable from 0.8 to 1.20 metres, and the rest of the facilities (changing rooms, showers and a technical area) on a trailer.
The pool is also equipped to guarantee access to people with reduced mobility and disabilities, which is always crucial, as water therapy is often an effective rehabilitation tool or used as physical therapy or pain relief.
The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation announced this new partnership in light of the figures released by the French government that show that between the 1st of July and the 31st of August 2021 alone, 1983 people died from drowning in France.
The figures have skyrocketed since the pandemic because health safety measures meant that many facilities like pools had to close down and so people couldn’t receive the training they needed to be safe around water.
The Foundation has worked to prevent drowning and guarantee access to sports to as many children as possible since its inception in 2011 when Charlene became Princess of Monaco.
