SurfAid

🏄 WE'RE HIRING: CAMPAIGN & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER 🏄⁠ Are you passionate about making an impact and leading innovative campaigns? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment? SurfAid is looking for a full-time Campaigns & Communications Manager to join our team.⁠ In this exciting role, you’ll lead the charge on our flagship peer-to-peer campaign, Make A Wave, and oversee communications strategies for a variety of projects, amplifying our mission and impact. You’ll also collaborate with teams in Indonesia and the Solomon Islands to tell SurfAid’s story to global and local audiences. Get in touch via email if you're interested and have relevant experience.⁠ 📍 Please note this is a hybrid role ideally based in Sydney but we are open to fully remote (within Australia).

#MakeAWave fundraising has officially closed for 2024! Together this incredible community has raised $661,593 enough to bring our full health, water and nutrition program to over 13 remote communities in the places we love to surf. ⁠ ⁠ The funds you have raised will: ⁠ ⁠ 🏥 Fund healthcare training and support for women and their families.⁠ ⁠ 🚰 Establish clean water facilities ⁠ ⁠ 👶🏽 Combat malnutrition in children under five. ⁠ ⁠ Thank you again to everyone who participated or donated to the challenge. Your waves are creating a ripple effect that will impact generations of families.⁠

👧🏽👧🏿 Today we celebrate the International Day of the Girl. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ @unitednations International Day of the Girl focuses on the challenges girls face and promotes girls empowerment along with the fulfillment of their human rights. Adolescent girls have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not only during these critical formative years but also as they mature into women. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ If effectively supported during their adolescent years, girls have the potential to change the world – both as the empowered girls of today and as tomorrow’s workers, entrepreneurs, mentors, mothers, household heads, and political leaders. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ At SurfAid our mission is to improve the lives of women and children in remote areas connected to us through surfing. Supporting girls is at the heart of our work in very isolated villages where maternal and child mortality rates are some of the highest in the world.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 💙 With your ongoing support, we can continue to #MakeAWave of impact for girls around the world by providing access to healthcare, clean water and sanitation, and improved nutrition.⁠⁠

Will you be joining us at the @beecraft81 SurfAid Cup Manly this year? We’d love to see you there on November 8th!⁠ 🏄🏻🏄🏽♂️🏄🏾♀️⁠ ⁠ If you’re yet to attend a SurfAid Cup in person, it’s a truly epic day filled with local legends and pro surfers coming together to fundraise and compete in a tag team event. The Cup enables long-term sustainable change in remote communities where we love to surf.⁠ ⁠ 🙌 With legends like @mattwilko8 already confirmed to take part, we bet the competition and the surfing is going to be fierce. ⁠ ⁠ 🌊 If you’re interested in entering a team in the Cup, please message us or click the link in our bio to find out more! ⁠

👩🏽⚕️ Meet Rini, a passionate midwife working in SurfAid’s programs on the island of Sumba.⁠ ⁠ She is primarily focused on village health, and she works hard to encourage women to travel to larger hospitals on the island to deliver their babies to ensure they have safe births. She is determined to see the collaboration of all the existing heathcare services on Sumba to ensure women and their children get the best possible healthcare services 👩🏽🍼⁠

Calling all Californian surfers! Join us at the SurfAid Cup Ventura as part of Queen of the Point on October 25th! 🏄♂️🏄♀️ C Street is calling, and we’d love to have you join the fun! Whether you're a seasoned competitor or a first-timer, the SurfAid Cup is a special day where pros and locals unite for an epic cause—raising funds to bring lasting, sustainable change to remote communities in need. 🌍💙 Want to get involved? There’s still time to enter your team and be part of this incredible event. Send us a DM or hit the link in our bio for all the details!

Our #MakeAWave challenge would not have been possible without our incredible sponsors who helped make the campaign a huge success💙 ⁠ ⁠ We would like to extend the biggest thank you to the legends from @ripcurl @freelytravelapp @boostaus and @surfindustries who brought the challenge to life with us.⁠ ⁠ Thank you for making a wave of impact with us! 🙌

Here are some of the faces that your wave of impact is helping bring clean water, healthcare and food security to. Your 30-day surf challenge is causing a ripple effect, creating change that will last a lifetime. 💙⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ 🌏️ You are a community of changemakers. You have shown us when surfers unite to support a cause they care about, nothing can stop us from making an epic difference. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ As we wrap up the challenge for 2024, we want to say thank you for making a wave of impact to improve the livelihood of families in remote surf communities. ⁠ ⁠ 🌊 Remember, your fundraising pages will remain open until October 15th!⁠ ⁠

Earlier this year, our partners at the Western Solomon Surfing Association (WSSA) participated in a valuable Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) training, facilitated by Dignity Pasifik. This training played a crucial role in setting clear success indicators for the Women Make Waves program, ensuring we can effectively measure the program's impact and foster continuous improvement. With these new tools, WSSA is better equipped to assess how well the program is meeting its goals and serving the local community. Together, we remain committed to making data-driven decisions that enhance the program’s effectiveness. Team Up Australian Volunteers Program

Meet Mr. Yosua, a young father and farmer from Sumba. Through SurfAid's agricultural microgrants, Yosua expanded his farm from rice to tomatoes, chillies, and eggplants, and now harvests 2,300 tomato plants with incredible success. The income from just one tonne of tomatoes surpasses that of 70 sacks of rice! With his increased earnings, Yosua supports his brother's college education and covers his children's school fees. "I’ve proven to myself that I can be successful and support my family," Yosua shares.