Swimming swimming pools: At least 3,000 lifeguards are lacking nationwide – leftists demand large investments | EUROtoday

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At least 3,000 lifeguards are lacking in Germany. According to the swimming grasp affiliation, this can be a safety risk-especially for kids. The left calls for in depth investments for swimming swimming pools.

According to the Federal Association of German Swimming Master, a minimum of 3,000 lifeguards are lacking in Germany’s swimming swimming pools. This lack of workers has a unfavorable affect on the swimming expertise of kids and adolescents, warned Association President Peter Harzheim within the “Rheinische Post” (Wednesday).

“In the fourth grade, around half of the children cannot swim safely or not at all.” In order to reverse this pattern, mother and father with their kids must go to the swimming swimming pools and educate them the best swimming below supervision. In flip, lifeguards are vital.

“It drives my stipes on my forehead when many now go to the lakes that cannot swim well enough,” continued the affiliation president. “Especially on swimming lakes and rivers, there is a greater risk that something will happen if you are not a good swimmer.” According to a statistics of the German life rescue firm, 411 folks and thus round 30 greater than 2023 drowned in 2024.

Linke calls for billions of investments

Meanwhile, the Vice-Group Chairman of the Left, Janine Wissler, requested the federal authorities to speculate far-reaching investments in swimming swimming pools. “The one billion euros announced by the federal government from the special fund infrastructure for the renovation of brass sports facilities will not close the gaps in swimming formation,” emphasised Wissler. In their viewpoint, “at least one billion euros a year alone is needed for the swimming pools until the mid -2030s to eliminate the renovation backlog”.

Similar calls for had raised the washing alliance Germany at first of the month. One purpose that the merger formulated: “That all children born in 2026 are safe swimmers on their tenth birthday”.

In 2000 there have been round 7,800 swimming swimming pools in Germany. Since then, tons of of bogs have needed to shut completely. According to the DLRG, half of the present methods in want of renovation. “There is no extensive renovations, might have been mooring around every seventh public swimming pool over the next three years,” stated a spokesman for the Catholic News Agency (KNA).

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