Drowning of Cork toddler Avery Greene inspires water safety programme

Amanda Cambridge with a photograph of her son Avery who drowned in 2019.

The mother of a boy who drowned on a family holiday says he is the inspiration behind a new national drowning prevention programme aimed at pre-school children.

Amanda Cambridge, whose three-year-old son, Avery Greene, drowned in a pool while on a family holiday in Alicante in Spain in 2019, worked with Water Safety Ireland on its  ‘Hold Hands’ programme for pre-schools, creches and early learning centres, and said it will help save lives.