MANTA Sail Training Centre (2012)
MANTA a project and Not-for-profit takes Vietnamese fishermen off overfishing and endangered marine habitats, transferring their existing ocean skills to water-sports.
In turn, sail-trained Vietnamese fishermen teach large groups of children or corporates water-sports and climate change survival skills.
The presence of the children helps sustain alternative livelihoods, for fishermen in water-sports, tallying, with their community service core curriculum components. As MANTA is aligned with International Baccalaureate and IGCSE curricula.
Tried and tested on children the programme is now rolled out to corporations for their Corporate-Social-Environmental Responsibility (CSER) requirements and team building.
In contrast to fossil fuel power, water-sports are wind powered, wave powered, paddle powered, hand powered, and individual and/or team powered. Water-sports include dinghy sailing, Stand-Up-Paddling, coracling, water-rescue and seamanship.
