Six-year-old Bow Francis Sansom was one the three recipients of the Bravery Medal awarded for acts of bravery in hazardous circumstances at the Order of Fiji Investiture ceremony today.
President Jioji Konrote presented the medal to Sansom at State House earlier today.
Francis’s father Dom Sansom says his son saved a one-year-old girl from drowning in their pool in Lami.
Dom says the baby climbed over the kids fence and crawled to the edge of the pool and fell in and sank to the bottom of the pool.
He says Bow heard the baby fall in and he ran to the pool and dived in and grabbed her from the bottom of the pool.
Dom says he swam up to the top of the water and held the baby out of the water with one hand while holding onto the side of the pool with the other hand.
He says Bow called out for help and the family of the baby ran out and got them out of the pool.
We spoke to Bow who was five years old when the incident happened.
13‑year‑old Kinisimere Babasiga from Lawaki District School was also given a President’s Medal awarded for acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril.
Kinisimere was nominated by her teacher and she is described as an extremely courageous and brave young girl who risked her own life to save a mentally challenged woman and her 3‑year‑old daughter during Tropical Cyclone Winston.
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