Project Report
| Nov 9, 2024
Fund the ocean bus
By Shayle Havemann | Project leader
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Introduction
Often young people living close to the ocean but under their national poverty line have never even seen the ocean. Our project aims to engage 80,000 young people a year in ocean conservation and work to create youth ambassadors to help save our ocean by engaging their wider community. The youth voice is strong, let's help educate it to save our beautiful blue ocean.
Report
A fully run outreach program in partnership with the local Aquarium. We aim to fund an Ocean Bus that will be equipped with professional expert staff and resources and will visit township and under-resourced local schools. With our fully equipped mobile aquarium facility, we offer children an unforgettable experience with live marine animals. We will also fund aspiring underprivileged students to go onto join a marine internship or training course to create youth conservationists
Thank you for your support
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Jun 25, 2024
Seeing is Learning
By Lloyd | Project Volunteer
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Hi All,
While we fight daily to fund education for children living in poverty we know the importance of ensuring we provide the best quality education from a young age.
Therefore through this program and using your amazing donation gifts we are able to fund an annual conservation book drive where in September 2023 we funded 250 books that we delivered to 50 primary schools, it is a great small step introducing conservation at a young age however our 2024 fundraising we only have 30USD so we really need help to fundraise for this.
As well as books we also partner with the local aquarium and game farms that offer free access and tours to our children and we cover the transport to get the children out the classroom and see the amazing life on the door step. We hope this awareness we build ambassadors to protect the planet in all areas of the world.
Our big dream one day is to purchase our own bus so we can really increase our impact across South Africa!
Thank You,
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Feb 26, 2024
Under the Sea.. Who is there?
By Marike | Conservation Volunteer For Africa
Dear Supporters,
I am really excited by how much you have supported us with our project over the years. With your support we have educated thousands of young children and also inspired hundreds to follow a new found passion to protect and promote our ocean and seas around the world.
In 2023 we had donations come through in stages so we struggled to setup a structured monthly engagement plan due to not having regular funding however this didn't stop us. Over the last 3 months we managed to purchase conservation books for under-privileged primary schools that helped leaders, teachers read and talk to their class about wildlife for the first time, many of these children have never seen the ocean although they live right next them in Africa!
Alongside this we partnered with the local Aquarium charity that offer staff coming into our school providing outreach lessons in the community and then also provided free entry into the Aquarium so we just had to cover the transport with your donations.
Working together we really impacted many children and these partnerships are helping us do more and therefore we are excited to continue our work in 2024. Our biggest dream for 2024 is to fundraise for an outreach bus as we would love to be able to cut our transportation costs and run these amazing educational tours ourselves. To do this we would need to fundraise 500,000ZAR for a 18 seater mini bus and this is about $26,000, we know it is a huge target but it is giving us focus for 2024 so watch this space!
We wish you a successful 2024 and we hope you continue on our amazing journey with us!
Thank You
Marike
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