CROWD FUNDING

OCEANS ALIVE CONSERVATION TRUST

NON PROFIT ORGANISATION
CROWD FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE

TRAINING TOMORROW'S OCEAN GUARDIANS

PLEASE HELP US TO RAISE

R450,000 / €22,000 / $26000

INTRODUCTION

Imagine a young person with no job, no skills, no opportunities, no hope, feeling like their future fate is already decided.

Now imagine that person receiving the opportunity to becoming a swim instructor, a lifesaver, a marine science ranger, a commercial diver, a boat skipper, and an ocean awareness ambassador, not just within their community, but working for reputable organisations, locally and abroad, making a significant ongoing contribution to global ocean conservation.

This isn’t a dream, it's a proven reality thanks to our amazing supporters and the Oceans Alive Conservation Trust Training Academy.

We are asking for your help to raise R450,000 / €22,000 / $26000 so that we can continue this life-changing work for young South Africans, training, mentoring, equipping, and providing many underprivileged young people a future by turning their passion for the ocean into purpose, skills, and real job opportunities.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO?

The Oceans Alive Conservation Trust mission is twofold, to work to conserve the marine environment and to uplift people and change lives.

Over the past five years:

We have trained dozens of individuals to become lifesavers, commercial divers, marine science rangers and skippers.
Many of our students, who started out with no skills and no future prospects, have gone on to work with communities and for respected companies and organisations, locally and abroad, working at police search and rescue, aquariums, commercial diving and salvage companies, research organisations and marine wildlife conservation facilities.
We don’t stop at training, because experience is key to success, so we also provide work experience opportunities, research opportunities, work placements, and assistance with work preparedness.

We believe that ocean and marine wildlife conservation without community awareness, community participation and trained community based conservation people, is almost impossible.

A healthy ocean needs ocean guardians and a healthy society needs opportunities, and these two are deeply connected.

WHY WE NEED R450,000 / €22,000 / $26000

This funding will enable us to:

Scale up our training and enrol more students in lifesaving, commercial diving, and other conservation programmes.
Provide additional training facilities, programs, materials and equipment, such as dive gear, safety equipment, scientific instruments, underwater camera's, underwater drones, and additional training aids.
Support work experience placements, supervision, work preparedness and providing students with real opportunities.
Cover instructor costs, student attendance costs, travel costs, accommodations costs.
Retain experienced service providers, instructors, trainers, and logistical support operations.

Without this funding, fewer young people will have access to these significant life changing opportunities.

The gap remains large, many are talented, many are passionate, many are ready, but opportunities like this are lacking.

OUR IMPACT TO DATE

Here are just some of the real-life life changing transformations we’ve made possible:

Graduated students with no previous income or employment prospects are now working as commercial divers, lifesavers, boat skippers, and marine science rangers for leading organisations locally and overseas.
Many of our commercial divers are employed in aquariums, and in underwater conservation work, scientific research projects, salvage and other related underwater operations.
Graduates who once had no hope of a decent future and couldn’t see beyond their immediate surroundings, are now productive members of society, working, travelling taking up overseas opportunities for further training and employment. (USA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, SAUDI ARABIA, NEIGHBOURING AFRICAN COUNTRIES)

These are not isolated stories, they are proof that when we invest in people, change and conservation awareness ripples outward to families and communities, and our marine ecosystems have benefit.

WHAT YOUR SUPPORT MEANS

By donating, you’re not just contributing funding towards a project, you are investing in future hope and ocean action.

Here’s how your support will translate:

DONATION SIZE:

What it can provide...

R500

Safety gear or basic materials for a student...

R2,500

Partial funding for a work experience, or work placement opportunity...

R10,000

Funding towards a training module for a student (commercial diver / lifeguard / swim instructor / ranger / boat skipper)...

R50,000

Funding towards several students trained including support for work experience placements and necessary equipment...

Every contribution counts, every doner becomes part of the story of someone whose life is changed and transformed, and part of the ocean and coastal environment conservation efforts that they will help to respect and protect.

CALL TO ACTION

We need 450,000 reasons – R450,000 to continue giving people the chance not only to dream, but to have opportunity.

To turn passion into purpose and to protect what we love by involving those who live beside, or depend on the ocean, and giving them the necessary awareness and tools to build sustainable futures.

IN RETURN FOR YOUR VITAL SUPPORT, WE OFFER

1. Acknowledgement, Exposure and Recognition

2. SARS Tax Benefits - Ocean Alive Conservation Trust is a registered non-profit and public benefit organisation offering a SARS 18A tax certificate for any CIS support you provide, enabling you to benefit from tax deductions for your support.

3. Social Media Exposure and Brand Awareness

4. The knowledge that you are contributing to the future protection of our oceans and the planet.

WILL YOU JOIN US?

Donate now and change a life forever.
Share this campaign widely, to your networks, and you could be the one that puts us over the top.
Follow our progress, meet our students, see for yourself what real life changing opportunities look like.

Conserving what we love cannot be achieved alone, but together, and with your support, Oceans Alive Conservation Trust can continue to change lives, create change, create futures and create passionate and competent future ocean guardians.

THANK YOU

Thank you for taking the time to read, to care, and to act.

Thank you for believing in young people.

Thank you for believing in our oceans.

With your help, we can do more than protect our oceans and marine life, we can transform lives.

With gratitude and hope...

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TRAINING TOMORROW'S OCEAN GUARDIANS

BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR DONATIONS TO OCEANS ALIVE CONSERVATION TRUST PROJECTS.

EFT PAYMENT CONTRIBUTIONS AND DONATIONS.

STANDARD BANK
Oceans Alive Conservation Trust (NPO)
Account Number: 052377105
Branch: Kingsmead KZN HO
Branch Code: 051001
SWIFT Code: SBZAZAJJ

Oceans Alive Conservation Trust is a Registered Non-Profit and Public Benefit Organization

Non-Profit Company Registration No: 2019/534595/08
Non-Profit Organization Registration No. 319-273
Public Benefit Organization (SARS Section 18A) Reference No. 930067816
Income Tax Reference No. 9443698197
VAT Registration No. 4160289023
CSD Supplier No. MAAA0968460

OCEANS ALIVE CONSERVATION TRUST
Caring for our Oceans and Coastal Environments through Research, Conservation, Protection, Community Awareness, Social Upliftment, Education and Global Action.

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Website: www.ocean-alive.org