Community development is important to MANTA as we help to develop and promote the sport of sailing in Vietnam. We believe there is a large value in enabling many children to have to opportunity to participate in sports, and in particular, sailing. We want to offer sailing to a broad base of children from all socio-economic backgrounds. Therefore, with your support, we plan to continue offering sail training courses as part of the curriculum at the HCMC Sports University and sailing lessons to disadvantaged children from local schools and fishing families in Mui Ne village.

Sailing not only contributes to personal development by encouraging a healthy, active lifestyle, promoting self-esteem by learning new skills and participating in sports, but it also provides children with a useful and marketable skill set for future work opportunities in the lucrative sports tourist businesses that thrive, particularly here in Mui Ne.

Further, MANTA has trained Vietnamese athletes to compete in regional and international competitions.