Club de Surfistas del Viento is Back from Australia

Our surfing club from San Bernardo del Viento, Colombia is back from Australia after an unforgettable trip. It was an immersion program into the surfing culture of Australia.

Among other things, they learned from the pros about

Surfing

Safety technics

Survival

Skating

Teamwork

The ocean 

Australian culture

Friendship

And specially fun...

Nuestros muchachos del Club de Surfistas del Viento regresaron de un viaje inolvidable a Australia donde aprendieron muchas cosas interesantes acerca del facinante mundo del surf.  

Club de Surfistas del Viento Goes to Australia!

Club de Surfistas del Viento and dignitaries Met in the Australian Embassy, Bogota, Colombia

We are launching our new OceanVida Blog today just in time to celebrate a great event.  In March 2013 we created the Club de Surfistas del Viento as part of our Guardianes de la Naturaleza program.  Surf boards were donated by the Share the Stoke Foundation.  The main purpose of the club is to teach local kids living on a remote beach on the Caribbean coast of Colombia to surf and protect the ocean.  On April 8, 2014, six members of our club left for Australia on an unforgettable trip to learn about surfing culture in Australia—invited by the Government of Colombia.  We feel honored that our kids were invited to such an important event, and we want to extent our gratitude to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia.  

See more news about this trip (in Spanish):

http://www.cancilleria.gov.co/newsroom/news/2014-04-08/8931

http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/occidente/ninos-del-choco-estan-en-australia-para-practicar-surf-_13816020-4