American Red Cross Certified: Palekana Aquatics Academy Is Strengthening Hawaiʻi’s Water Safety Future
Palekana Aquatics Academy is strengthening water safety education in Hawaiʻi by training instructors using American Red Cross teaching methods. Learn how to become a water safety instructor and support safer communities statewide.
Half Of Hawaiʻi Kids Can’t Swim. Little Is Being Done To Help Them
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children in the state, but efforts to address the problem have been mostly left up to community organizations with limited funding and uneven reach.
I Palekana Kakou Ma Ka Wai (Let Us Be Safe in the Water)
The Hawai‘i Water Safety Coalition (HWSC) was formed in 2023 to create the state’s first Hawai’i Water Safety Plan — a roadmap to ensure that everyone in Hawai’i is safe in, on, and around the water. May this plan, which was inspired by the U.S. National Water Safety Action Plan and filled with recommendations from our own Hawai’i stakeholders, spur the changes that are so gravely needed to prevent drownings across our counties and our island state.