Since January, $100 from each Snorkel Venture booking has quickly added up to a whopping $13,800 in the donation pot! So, we thought we’d check in with our charity partners to see how your donations have contributed to projects that are driving social and environmental change. Although as snorkelers we are focused on what lies beneath the waves, the health of the coral, fish, whales and dolphins, nudibranchs, sea stars and anemones is often determined by what happens above the waves. Many of the biggest threats to marine life come from human activity, which means protecting the environment starts with changing behaviors. And that starts with education. So with that in mind, this quarter we're highlighting how your donations are helping our charity partners invest in the next generation of environmental custodians. Classroom of Hope Our most recent charity partnership is with Classroom of Hope, an organization based in Lombok who are tackling multiple social issues with one clever solution. When a huge earthquake shook through Lombok in 2018, 400 schools were either damaged or completely demolished, leaving thousands of children without a safe space to learn. COH is rebuilding the earthquake damaged schools using blocks made from compressed recycled plastic. Each classroom built utilizes 1.8 tonnes of plastic waste, locally collected, washed, shredded and compressed into bricks. But COH doesn’t stop there, alongside their construction projects they run community enrichment and environmental education projects, that strive to create long lasting social change. One particular movement I’d like to highlight is COH’s Early Marriage Prevention Program. This program equips selected junior high school students to become peer counselors. The counselors, educate their peers on subjects such as reproductive health, sanitation and risks associated with early marriage and pregnancy. Having this information conveyed to them from a fellow student, has a
Since January, $100 from each Snorkel Venture booking has quickly added up to a whopping $13,800 in the donation pot! So, we thought we’d check in with our charity partners to see how your donations have contributed to projects that are driving social and environmental change. Although as snorkelers we are focused on what lies
Its been nearly a century since plastic became commonplace in our lives. And over the years it has slowly made its way into every corner of the planet and when I say every corner, I mean it. Studies have found plastic in human placentas as well as in most food we consume. Plastic litter can be found as high as Mount Everest and as deep as the Mariana Trench. Like many revolutionary inventions, plastic reshaped the world in ways we could never have imagined, and not all for the better. But now that the plastic cat is out of the bag it isn’t going back in without a fight! The average single use plastic bag is utilized for 10 to 20 minutes, the time it takes us to get our shopping from the store to our homes and the bag to end up in the bin. From the bin, that bag will go to landfill where it will take over 1000 years to break down. This scenario is based in a country fortunate enough to have waste management systems in place. We toss our plastic bags into the general waste bin. Once a week, we wheel the bin out to the curb, and by morning it’s empty. As if by magic, the rubbish disappears, forgotten about, as the cycle quietly repeats itself. But imagine if that system didn’t exist. How long would it take before our sidewalks, homes, forests, and rivers were overwhelmed by the waste we produce every day? This is the reality for many countries, where the rise of plastic happened so rapidly that no infrastructure was ever built to manage it. Meet the No Trash Triangle Initiative This past week, I had the pleasure of meeting some of the team behind the No Trash Triangle Initiative (NTTI)
Its been nearly a century since plastic became commonplace in our lives. And over the years it has slowly made its way into every corner of the planet and when I say every corner, I mean it. Studies have found plastic in human placentas as well as in most food we consume. Plastic litter can
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