BAHRAIN’S fastest swimmer has praised the new national health, safety and sporting initiative which aims to teach 10,000 youngsters to swim and said ‘it will help save lives’.Farhan Saleh Faraj took to the water at his local pool in Hamad Town at the age of six, when his father Saleh Faraj Sulton, a Bahraini GCC champion swimmer, encouraged him and his brother to get involved in the sport .
