How we can use Water Sports to transmit knowledge and help us to create “agents of change” about the problem that our waste is causing to the oceans
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- How we can use Water Sports to transmit knowledge and help us to create “agents of change” about the problem that our waste is causing to the oceans
© Surf&Clean
How we can use Water Sports to transmit knowledge and help us to create “agents of change” about the problem that our waste is causing to the oceans
Surf and Clean objective is
mainly targeted towards water sports trainers with two goals in mind:
- Teach them about the main
threats to the ocean, namely plastic pollution, and inspire them to be active
in its defense.
- Give them tools to use in
their classroom, so they will be able to transmit information about this
problem and potential solutions to their pupils.
In this way, Surf and Clean
will create a network of what we call “Agents of change”.
Surf and Clean will work with
FESurfing and regional surfing federations to reach surfing instructors,
schools, clubs and shops as well as other water sports federations like canoeing,
stand up paddle boarding, kite-surfing, diving…etc.
The main goals for 2018 are:
- Incorporate “Defending the Oceans” as a necessary subject included in the
official curriculum to become a surfing instructor in Spain.
- Create a manual specially addressed to surfing instructors with pieces of
advice, activities, and actions that they could use in their classes to relay
environmental values to their pupils. It will be created in collaboration with
more than 30 experienced surfing instructors and delivered to more than a
hundred surfing schools in Spain. It can also be translated into English and
many other languages to be shared worldwide.
- Adapt “Defending the Oceans” to other water sports and include it in the
lessons to become an instructor. (For example, in the lesson to become a
canoeing instructor or a stand-up paddleboard instructor)