Education
As the main tool for personal and professional growth. This is possible by providing the kids with scholarships for their studies.
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Sea of dreamsMar de Sueños: Broad Horizons of Opportunity
The Waveswell retreats exist to fund the Mar de Sueños project. The goal is to improve the personal and professional development of kids from the coastline of El Salvador.
What it is
What is Mar de Sueños?
Mar de Sueños is a social start-up that, through sports, strives to transmit values, virtues and high goals to kids on the Salvadoran coastline, empowering their personal and professional development.
How it works
Three pillars
Values
As the soft skills for the empowerment and differentiation of young professionals.
Sports
As the channel for transmitting, through a fun and subtle way, values and virtues.
Who it is for
A commitment
The goal is to select a maximum of 15 to 20 beneficiaries, boys and girls. That number is deliberately small, because the commitment behind it is long: quality work from around age ten all the way to graduation, and after that the aim of placing them in decent jobs.
It runs with volunteers from ESEN, the Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios in El Salvador, and it is working to open up to more Salvadoran universities.
Where it is going
Mission, vision, values
To educate and create opportunities for young people from coastal areas, through sport and personalised coaching in values, virtues and high ideals, for their personal and professional growth.
To become the leading social enterprise, a hotel school, in the Americas for tourist areas and above all coastal ones, so that broad horizons of opportunity open up for the beneficiaries through academic education, sport and values.
Teamwork. Proactivity. Perseverance. Generosity. Optimism. Integrity.
The long version of the vision is a chain of hotel schools. The hotel is where guests stay. The school next door is where the young people from the programme study, and they do their practical training inside the hotel. Guests meet them, they meet guests, and the money loops back around. A chain of hotels dedicated to human development through sport.
Helping
How to be part of it
Come on a retreat
The simplest one, and the one that was designed for this. Part of what you pay for a Waveswell retreat goes into the programme.
Sponsor a child directly
There is an option to become a sponsor from El Salvador or from anywhere in the world through a monthly contribution, made as a donation via Waveswell. Write and Joss will explain exactly where it goes.
Get in touch about Mar de Sueños
For sponsorship, volunteering, or a company that wants a social responsibility programme with something real behind it.