#surf

🇮🇳 India · Bay of Life Foundation

India's first accredited surf school pays coastal kids in free surf lessons for every 5kg of beach trash they collect, turning Chennai's Kovalam shoreline into a classroom for ocean literacy.

🇫🇷 France · Surfrider Foundation Europe

Founded by surfers in Biarritz in 1990, this network now organizes thousands of volunteer cleanups on beaches, riverbanks and seabeds across Europe every year.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Planet Patrol

Founded after a paddleboarder documented plastic clogging England's waterways end to end, Planet Patrol turns every paddle, swim or dog walk into citizen-science data that has logged half a million pieces of litter worldwide.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Surfers Not Street Children

A Durban charity that pulls vulnerable street children into surf clubs, mentorship and life-skills programs, turning some of them into surf coaches, lifeguards and professional surfers.

🇦🇺 Australia · Take 3 for the Sea

Born from surfers picking up rubbish after every session, Take 3 turned a simple habit -- take three pieces of trash off the beach -- into a global plastic-pollution movement reaching millions.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Waves for Change

Surf therapy nonprofit using ocean-based mentorship to support youth mental health in South Africa's coastal townships.

🇦🇺 Australia · Waves of Wellness Foundation

Waves of Wellness pairs group cognitive behavioural therapy with free surf lessons to help Australians rebuild their mental health in the ocean.