Parents of Ronalds Abele talk about their son who died by drowning in the River Nene. They have are campaigning for water safety measures
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00:00So Ronald, he was a joyful kid. He was helpful. He wouldn't say no to any work that you would give him.
00:11He's the third, we call this our relationship, three way relationship. Ronald was the third one who does everything.
00:20He wouldn't say no to any work. He was there for his younger siblings and he was a joy to us.
00:27He was always smiling and he was full of happiness.
00:33When I needed to find a picture, I couldn't find it. There was no picture of him where he wasn't smiling.
00:41Not even like from the childhood when he was little, every single picture he was smiling.
00:47He's always been really good in heart, helpful to everybody.
00:54Ronald would do anything, anything that you ask him for anyone. He don't care.
01:00You'll see him playing with two, three year old or you'll see him play with 60, 70 year old.
01:05And our neighbours, the neighbours, everyone saying how polite, young, that's the word they use, polite, young lad he was.
01:14And that makes us feel proud because we know that we were raising a good kid.
01:19We want to raise awareness. That's our number one priority, water safety awareness.
01:25We want his legacy to move on. We want to do so many things to help the community as well.
01:31I mean, as you can see, there is no sign whatsoever here.
01:36We want to incorporate, in cooperation with the relevant authorities, we want to try and do certain things that will let his legacy move on.
01:47And also to raise awareness about water safety.
01:52You're literally just looking where you're throwing it.
01:57That's how far.
02:00Simple as that. You're not going to throw a ring that distance.
02:03You'd be looking to throw a ring down just here, playing football with mates.
02:07What's a football fuller there? Throw a football.
02:10If you've got a big coat pocket, empty the coat pocket.
02:14You've got to say, say the bin and the post or something that's fell in to rescue that.
02:18Two people, drop the line at your foot.
02:27Get the bag, go to that one.
02:32You can do three. It just gives you different techniques.
02:36Using the same technique.