Surf For Life Competitors

Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans primarily from rivers. The plastic afloat across the oceans – legacy plastic – isn’t going away on its own. Therefore, solving ocean plastic pollution requires a combination of stemming the inflow and cleaning up what has already accumulated. The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, develops and scales solutions to rid the world’s oceans of plastic by means of ocean cleanup systems and river interception solutions. Do you want to join the largest cleanup in history? Check out our careers page and see how you can get involved on our website.

SurfAid’s mission is to improve the lives of women and children in remote areas connected to us through surfing. SurfAid specialises in working in very isolated villages where the maternal and child mortality rates are some of the highest in the world. Our geographical focus on the heartlands of surfing where few visitors but surfers go, make our work unique. We know that simple solutions like hand washing prior to delivering a baby, practising exclusive breastfeeding, and improving nutrition can have an enormously positive impact on the health of women and their families. We work with each individual community to affect long term behaviour change. We believe, and our results show, that working with communities to develop their own solutions is the most effective form of aid - a hand up, not a hand out approach.

Surfing the Nations is a non-profit, humanitarian organization delivering the message of love and hope through the sport of surfing and acts of selfless service. We believe surfers have a unique calling on their lives. To go into the loneliest and most desolate sectors of their community, the tiny pockets of the world that have been overlooked or forgotten, to be the change that this generation so desperately needs. We live by the motto of “surfers giving back,” and our desire is to see lives changed, of those who we serve, as well as of the individuals within our organization serving them. Our hope is that as they learn to serve others, they will grow into positions of leadership and maturity themselves. Locally, we have one of the largest food distribution sites on the island of Oahu, Feeding The Hungry, catering to Hawaii’s needy, disabled, homeless, and working poor populations. We also reach out to at-risk youth in our high school and college outreaches, and make annual trips to the neighbor islands: the Big Island of Hawaii, Lanai, Kauai, Maui and Molokai. Internationally, Surfing the Nations makes yearly trips to Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Israel, Egypt and China, bringing with us clothing, supplies and surf culture to the international communities. We believe surfing can be used as a powerful tool to bring about positive change. As surfers we will surely go…