Following the many drownings that have occurred in recent days, the Ministry of Negev and Galilee Development is initiating swimming classes in local authorities in the Bedouin sector in the Negev.
The classes will be given to the youth after school hours and will operate as swimming classes for children in the swimming pools in the area.
The body that is supposed to provide the swimming lessons will also provide transportation from the Bedouin villages to the swimming and return pools.
The ministry intends to invest NIS 1.5 million in providing free swimming lessons to children from the Bedouin sector.
According to data from the organization, Bedouin children are at high risk of death from accidents, with drowning being the second most common cause.
A Bedouin child is 6.3 times more likely to die in an accident than a Jewish child in the south, according to the report. And teens.
Only in the last two days has there been a number of drowning cases involving members of the Bedouin community in the south.
At Palmachim Beach, a father and his house drowned.
At Delilah Beach in Ashkelon, my two brothers, aged 11 and 14, drowned in Rahat and were hospitalized in critical condition.
A survey conducted by an organization before the Ministry of Development of the Negev and the Galilee shows that Bedouin children drown more than all Jewish and Arab children, and drowning accounts for 10 percent of all deaths of children in the sector.
Ilan Shochat, director general of the Ministry of Development of the Negev and the Galilee, said that "swimming classes for children are expected to dramatically reduce drowning rates in the Bedouin sector and save lives.
The ministry is constantly working for the economic and social development of the Bedouin population in the Negev in order to reduce gaps between it and the entire population.
The ministry also works to integrate the sector into Israeli society in order to bring about an improvement in social responses by creating complementary responses to the actions of the government and local government. "
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