UNICEF South Africa has launched “The Sport for the Environment and Climate Change programme”.
In an effort to protect children from the impact of climate change and environmental degradation, UNICEF South Africa has conceptualised “The Sport for the Environment and Climate Change programme” which strives to ensure that girls and boys, especially those and in under-resourced communities, are provided with inclusive and equitable developmental and environmental education opportunities.
This is being achieved by partnering with sport and play-based initiatives with the aim of strengthening sport and development organisations capacity to be able to deliver results for children on issues around the environment and climate change.
One such partner is the I Am Water Foundation whose mission is to increase access to oceans for youth and foster ocean habits that will launch a global movement for connection, protection, and sustainable enjoyment of oceans through sport and play
About the I Am Water Foundation
Read the below description from the I Am Water Foundation website:
I AM WATER believes in Ocean Conservation through transformative human ocean experience. Those who have opened their eyes underwater, those who have seen the beauty, the majesty, the great marine creatures of the world beneath the waves will learn to love and to protect!
Our mission is to ignite a movement of blue minds across the planet, to facilitate physical and emotional connections to the aquatic environment, to build understanding of the interdependence of healthy humans and healthy oceans and to influence behaviours to protect our global seas.
We feel especially passionate about working with under-resourced coastal communities where, despite living walking distance to the shoreline, we often find young people who have never seen the world just beneath the waves.
Source: https://www.sportanddev.org/