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During the Oakley Pro Bali the Rip Curl Team came down to teach the soul surf project Bali kids how to surf! Thanks to Mick Fanning, Gabriel Medina, Oney Anwar and Garut Widiarta for giving the kids such a memorable surf lesson! What lucky grommets! Not many kids can say that they got to learn from surfers like these! For more info go to www.soulsurfprojectbali.com
SURFING FOR A BETTER FUTURE AND ENvIRONMENT The foundation soul surf project Bali has a very cool program that teaches orphans and street kids on Bali how to surf and about environmental awareness in order to create future career paths for themselves in the surf world. Over the free 14 lesson course there are 10 lessons taught to the kids on how to swim, then how to surf and then four more lessons are dedicated to teach about the environment through beach clean-ups, turtle releases, making jamu and visiting trash recycling plants among other things. Kids that show promise are given further training in a Talent Class that can later lead to internships in the surf industry at Rip Curl and other surfing businesses. After two years of training those kids will get their Instructor License and Life Saving License and can apply for a microcredit within the foundation to start up their own surf-related business. Rip Curl has helped tremendously by giving the kids surf lessons, helping with fundraisers and getting the word out. They even sent in their pro team surfers Mick Fanning, Gabriel Medina, Oney Anwar and Garut Widiarta to meet the kids and teach them surfing for the day! Without Rip Curl’s sponsorship little of this would be possible and soul surf project Bali would be far from its goals with the kids. This is how the foundation soul surf project Bali helps underprivileged kids through surfing to build a better future for themselves and also for the environment too. The foundation also opened Bali’s first ever Eco Surf Shop in 2012. The shop provides environmentally friendly surfgear such as wooden surfboards, all-natural wax, leashes, deck grip (yes, all-natural leashes and deck grip!) T Shirts, wallets, sunglasses and flipflops. Products are almost all made locally, and some products like the beachbags and eco surfwax are made by kids (older than 16) who are still living in orphanages. The Eco Surf Shop is located at Jalan Nakula Blok 6, Legian. Not everyone can visit this shop in Bali, and that is why there is also a web shop at www. eco-surfshop.com All the profit the shop makes will be used for the soul surf project Bali and you are also doing the earth a favor by buying green! soul surf project Bali depends on help from others. A little income is generated with the Eco Surf Shop but more comes from donations from all over the world. If you want to help, please make a donation. On the website www. soulsurfprojectbali.com you can find info on how to donate. Right now soul surf project Bali is saving up for a car and a professional photo camera.