The Singapore Life Saving Society conducts aquatic skills acquisition and training programmes for individuals with disability.

Volunteer instructors conduct weekly classes in a public swimming pool and they train persons with physical disability (by far the largest group), hearing-impaired individuals as well as visually impaired individuals.

The Singapore Life Saving Society conducts aquatic skills acquisition and training programmes for individuals with disability.

Volunteer instructors conduct weekly classes in a public swimming pool and they train persons with physical disability (by far the largest group), hearing-impaired individuals as well as visually impaired individuals.

The group’s instructors have also collaborated and conducted training programmes in Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and Mexico. For their work in community service, the group was presented with the Singapore Youth Award (Community and Youth Service) in 2001.

In 2002, the group was presented with the prestigious Commonwealth Youth Service Award of the Commonwealth Youth Programme.