Kholofelo Sethebe, Marine Biologist and Educator at Parley Ocean School, explains more about the programme offered. “We try to educate the kids about plastic pollution, we all know how much of a threat that is to our oceans. We cover 8 different topics spanning 8 weeks and the first week we teach the kids about how the oceans generate the air that we breathe – which many people don’t seem to know.”
Franks says, “I want to create ocean guardians out of these kids. Kids that are from the community, that really care about our environment and really want to protect it, but then also have opportunities into the ocean economy. So that they can become surf instructors, life guards, and go to work on super yachts or study marine biology if they really care about protecting the ocean.”