“The oceans are too huge for one single hand to guard and look after. Nevertheless, if many small arms work collectively, our oceans will certainly get higher.” – Mr. Chatsakul Kaewpanao, PADI Course Director and Common Supervisor of Massive Bubble Dive Resort, a multi-year grantee recipient from Thailand
Over the previous few months, PADI AWARE Basis® obtained 150 group grant funding requests – a quadruple enhance in underneath simply two years.
The PADI AWARE® crew was thrilled to see such a passionate response, however rapidly realized the quantity requested from our deserving group has drastically exceeded the non-profit group’s price range limits. Our aim is to fulfill this demand head on in a race to boost USD $100,000 in donations in 100 days to double the variety of grantees that can obtain funding.
“The demand that we’re seeing is a sworn statement to how vital the grant program is to our international group to maintain preventing to avoid wasting our ocean planet. Nothing exemplifies our mission extra – to drive native motion for international ocean conservation – than the grant program. We hope you’ll donate in the present day to assist us assist others,” says Danna Moore, World Director of PADI AWARE Basis.
Ocean and community-changing proposals have are available in from over 31 nations, spanning virtually each continent on the planet. Together with your help, we may help present these Ocean Torchbearers with much-needed funding to additional their native initiatives which are driving ocean conservation globally.
In 2022, PADI AWARE launched its Mission Hub Group Grant Program to speed up participation, training, and advocacy for ocean safety by serving to fund the vital work of ocean initiatives aligned with PADI’s Blueprint for Ocean Motion.
In simply two years, PADI AWARE has awarded greater than USD $575,000 in grants to straight help 73 initiatives run by PADI dive outlets and community-based non-profits (with extra to return in October 2024). These initiatives tackle key ocean threats, like local weather change, marine particles, marine habitat loss, and marine species safety.
Your Help Immediately Funds Important Ocean Conservation Initiatives
From Mexico to Malaysia, many deserving initiatives want your help – shark safety, seagrass restoration, coral habitat monitoring, and marine particles removing are among the initiatives that want pressing assist. Listed below are just some examples of how the grant program has offered vital funding to these working to avoid wasting our ocean by means of grassroots conservation initiatives and outcome-driven actions over the previous two years.
This can give our group a greater platform to barter with Ugandan authorities and all the Africa area. I will likely be glad and happy with PADI AWARE for being the worldwide main group in saving and conserving our ecosystem the place we derive most of our socio-economic actions and livelihoods.”
– George William Mukasa, Director of Rwenzori Scuba Divers and Salvage Restricted, 2023 PADI AWARE Grantee in Uganda
The cash from the PADI AWARE grant has allowed us to arrange a analysis middle which is able to enable us to repeatedly monitor reef well being and educate individuals on the significance of marine conservation and the way they may help.”
– Reef Divers, 2023 PADI AWARE Grantee in South Africa
The funding has allowed me to hold out my challenge on fisheries regulation on this delicate and excessive biodiversity worth space… and to create knowledgeable citizen-scientists.”
– Ugo Nesto of 7 PERLE A.S.D, 2022 PADI AWARE Grantee in Italy
The PADI AWARE grant we’ve obtained has meant that we’ve been capable of practice key volunteers on seahorse survey methods and acquire an area authorities allow in Valletta, Central Area, Malta. We imagine that the general public has the best energy to guard this species.”
– Kirsty-Jo Muddiman of The Seahorse Belief, 2022 PADI AWARE Grantee in Malta
Due to the PADI AWARE Basis group grant we will make a giant distinction for the Coral Level Diving Reef Monitoring Mission and our group. This coral conservation [project] will create a long-lasting data-gathering mannequin and enhance upcoming divers’ capability to take part in these initiatives.”
– Natalia Gonzalez, of Coral Level Diving, 2023 PADI AWARE Grantee in Dominican Republic
PADI AWARE help will enable the Purple Sea Mission to extend its academic and conservation effectiveness. We’re discovering that college students and divers are more and more on the lookout for academic alternatives and experiences in conservation.”
– Dr. Omar Attum, scientific advisor of The Purple Sea Mission, 2022 PADI AWARE Grantee in Egypt
This cash from PADI AWARE Basis permits Florida Keys Dive Heart and our group to make a distinction within the marine particles that plagues our reef system… It helps to get divers within the water to finish clean-up dives and take away particles from the reef.”
– Seanna Knight, conservation coordinator for Florida Keys Dive Heart, 2022 PADI AWARE Grantee in USA
Study extra in regards to the highly effective tales of earlier PADI AWARE Group Grantees making a distinction right here.
Ocean Heroes Want You – and We All Want a Wholesome Ocean
We want your assist to boost USD $100,000 in 100 days for PADI AWARE’s Group Grant Program to double the variety of grantees that obtain funding. Each donation, huge or small, issues. Direct donations and fundraising efforts that attain USD $100, $300 and $1,000 will obtain an unique PADI AWARE donor present as a token of appreciation. However most significantly, your donation is funding vital ocean conservation initiatives which are driving actual affect the place it’s wanted most.
All who donate, no matter quantity, will likely be entered to obtain a liveaboard dive journey to the Purple Sea, Egypt, for one particular person, courtesy of Emperor Divers, five-time winner of Tauchen Journal’s prestigious “Greatest Liveaboard within the Purple Sea” award.*
Donate straight or begin a fundraiser! PADI AWARE Basis now has a enjoyable and simple choice to arrange your personal customized fundraising web page. Set a fundraising aim and share it with your folks, household, divers, and group. Because the fundraiser, you’ll obtain the present for fundraisers that attain USD $100, $300 and $1,000. Those that contribute to your fundraiser will likely be entered to win the Purple Sea liveaboard journey, too! See what others have accomplished right here and arrange your personal donation web page right here.
To be taught extra about PADI AWARE Basis’s ocean affect, click on right here.
*See contest particulars, phrases, and circumstances right here.
