I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. - Thomas Jefferson
We fully agree, Thomas.
Welcome to Dreams of the Ocean, the first Steem-financed surf charity project.
This social initiative aims to support kids in need through outdoors and watersports activities. We firmly believe that salty water is able to cure many things. Even if it's not able to solve all our problems, it definitely makes them look smaller.
Salty water is fuel to our wild souls.
Founder @surfermarly presenting the new logo designed by @eqko
Living our 'Dreams of the Ocean' 🐋
When ressources are getting short, the ones that suffer most are the younger ones.
Most of the time they are not even responsible for their own situations, but they have no possibilities to change it either. Economical problems often lead to social restriction - people get isolated.
We want to change that with the help of Steem!
These are our core beliefs:
- The power of the Ocean
- The importance of transparency, efficiency and trust in charity
- The future potential of Steem (and cryptocurrencies in general) and
- The possibility to melt these three first points in one mission
'Dreams of the Ocean' is a door opener that takes kids out off their daily routine in order to broaden their horizons.
Our very first charity event already took place on the 21st of October.
In cooperation with our local partners on Canary Islands - the Red Cross and Calima Surf - the first group of 15 kids enjoyed a day at the beach including a 5 hours surf training.
You know that you're doing the right thing when you see these kids smiling.
Picture taken by Calima Surf School
The next event is scheduled for the 28th of October.
We're hoping that a local TV channel will cover the activity. Fingers are crossed!
Stay also tuned for the live-stream from @steemfest (2nd to 3rd of November) where @surfermarly will present all the details: https://www.youtube.com/steemit. The exact date and time will be communicated soon!
In our next blog posts we will also inform you about the media coverage we've already generated for steemit.com. Our first activity at the beach was features in several local newspapers.
It felt extraordinarily good to see what a great response these activities are able to generate. We hope that we're able to animate much more people to contribute to the cause.
Do you want to become 'a dreamer', too?
If you want to support @dreamsoftheocean, then you might consider a donation of Steem or SBD to our account. 100% of the funds will be used for the cause, we guarantee full transparency.
There are infinite ideas we're having about future projects.
For the time being we will focus on taking the kids out to the beach an teaching them how to surf. In the future these activities may be complemented. During the first event we've already noticed that there are some kids who have an extraordinary talent for surfing. To support and promote them - for instance by providing them with their own surfboard - may one many following steps.
We'll be definitely not short in ideas! :-)
As a matter of course, all donators will be mentioned in our future publications in this blog.
Let's make a difference!
Thanks for your support,
The dreamers
Thanks for your valuable time!
This blog aims to finance
the charity project
called "Dreams of the Ocean",
an initiative that supports kids in need
through water sports activities.
Let's make this world a better place!
Original content. John Lennon quote found on pinterest.com.