We are delighted to announce the winners of the ‘Every Citizen a Life Saver’ and the ‘Save a Life’ photo competitions
At the end of 2024, we organised two photo competitions to highlight the importance of CPR training worldwide. After careful review, a WFSA jury selected the below winners from the many outstanding entries:
Every Citizen a Life Saver Competition Winners
In this competition, participants were asked to organise a CPR training workshop, and submit two photos taken during this event.
The entries were evaluated based on their innovation and creativity in engaging communities with CPR training for laypersons. The winning photographs capture the essence of making CPR accessible and fun while promoting essential life-saving skills in creative ways
1st Place: Anastasios Stefanakis
The humanitarian organization “KIDS SAVE LIVES – TA PAIDIA SOZOUN ZOES” (KSL) carried out a groundbreaking awareness campaign in Greece as part of WRAH DAY, with the message: “Anyone can save a life, even CHILDREN!”
The event was attended by over 20,000 students from across the country, either in person or online. The programme included demonstrations, competitions, and hands-on practice of Basic Life Support skills.
Additionally, a national cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) RECORD was set with 21,039 students from 305 Greek schools simultaneously performing CPR over two minutes, on specially designed or improvised manikins.
At the conclusion of the event, and for the FIRST TIME in Greek history, 100 Automatic External Defibrillators were donated to 100 schools, sending the day’s second powerful message: “CPR AND DEFIBRILLATORS SAVE LIVES!”
To date, KSL has trained half of the country’s schools with four programmes approved by the Ministry of Education!
2nd Place: Nanci Biondini, Antonela Bravin, and María Luz Irazoqui
Training the community in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation is one of the institutional commitments of the Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Resuscitation Association of Buenos Aires (AAARBA), a member of the FAAAAR. There are two training programmes aimed at children and adolescents:
CPR at school: Aimed at children from pre-school to 3rd grade of primary school. Through games and songs, the youngest children learn resuscitation manoeuvres in a fun way. The initiative, which was started in Asturias by Marta Nonide Robles and Raquel Palacio Villazón, was consolidated through a reciprocity agreement between ‘RCP desde mi cole’ in Asturias and AAARBA.
AAARBA at school: Its objective is to train teachers and students from 6th grade onwards, practising on simulation torsos.
These programmes provide life-saving tools and promote, from an early age, the importance of being prepared for emergency situations.
3rd Place: Baoku Olusola Abraham
We spent the last year going around many institutions to train citizens on CPR. We decided to start with in-hospital CPR which we did in two hospitals, and then proceeded on CPR TRAINING FOR LAYPERSONS which we did in a secondary school.
The pictures show teaching CPR at a a MUSLIM CELEBRATION GATHERING in Lokoja, Kogi State. We taught them about the acronym DRCAB .. danger, response, compression, airway and breathing. We taught them CHAIN OF SURVIVAL and then ELEMENTS OF HIGH QUALITY CPR.
We taught the landmark (easiest for layperson as in between the two nipples), the rate (100- 120/min), depth of at least (5-6cm) and 30 compressions to 2 breaths. We taught them to PUSH HARD AND PUSH FAST, and to lock the fingers and elbows and use the heel of the palm while delivering the chest compression. And to quickly get EARLY transport to the hospital with minimal interruptions of the chest compression.
We then asked five men and five women to practice.
Save a Life Photo Competition Winners
For this competition, organised in support of the World Restart a Heart (WRaH) initiative, participants submitted original photos illustrating the importance of CPR, alongside a short caption.
The winning photographs focused on promoting the life-saving impact of bystander CPR, and its potential to save lives around the world.
1st Place: Azarinah Izaham
Small Hands, Mighty Hearts: Where Courage Meets Compassion!
Young heroes rise, transforming tiny fingers into powerful lifelines. Children aren’t just future leaders—they’re emergency champions today, proving that age is just a number when saving lives matters.
2nd Place: Shradda Naik
Education begins the moment we see children as innately wise and capable beings! Training this curious young mind to make her a potential life saver!
3rd Place: Rodrigo Parada Heit
Beyond the operating room, saving lives in the community: teaching the smallest hands to make a difference with a heartbeat. Anaesthesiology doesn’t just numb the pain, it also awakens the knowledge that saves lives.
The first place winners from both competitions will receive one complimentary registration to the 19th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, in Marrakech, Morocco in April 2026.
A big thank you to everyone who participated in both competitions. We appreciate the creativity, passion, and dedication of all the entrants in helping advance life-saving CPR practices around the world!
