For Children to Flourish Projects
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Access For All Program
It’s simple. We provide free boat trips to our local kids. When we connect kids and their support systems to the beauty of nature: hope can be found, dreams can ignite, and even healing can begin. Our goal is to meet one or more of these three objectives during our 2-4 hour trips.
1) O.C.E.A.N. Course (Outgoing Curiousity Experiences Around Nature) How we relate to ourselves and the world around us
2) Science Education (influenced by the Coral Reef Education Institute)
3) Respite and Therapy (inspired by help and conversations with Kipuka Ho’ola)
This beautiful experience can help kids develop an awareness of themselves and others, encourage an appreciation for our ocean and life within, and learn skills to help them overcome hard things. -
Maui Resilency Project
Maui/Lahaina Resiliency Program. Our plan is to empower locals in Maui to use their maritime resources to give back to those who have been impacted by the devastating Lahaina fires. Since November 18, we have received funding to take out 360 kids and their families who lost everything in the fire. We couldn’t do this without the beautiful partnership with Trilogy Sail. We also work with Kipuka Ho’ola as they have helped coordinate therapists to come on board to be available for kids and their families.
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Leadership Development
Happened May 2024. Next Spring/Summer of 2025
50% off island kids 50% from Hawaii
We are so excited to begin our leadership development camp. A collaborative effort with Pacific Connections and other local and global non-profits. Our goal is to raise up future and well equipped leaders trained specifically to ask better questions and become better listeners. The ocean and boats are the tools we will use to navigate these conversations in a beautiful, fun, inspiring and safe way. The ocean is a great training ground to help develop the foundation of a curious spirit.
The Flotilla
Since December 2022, For Children to Flourish has annually taken out a group of kids from the east side of the island from a program called Collide. In this experience, keiki truly find hope and healing out on the ocean as many come from traumatic backgrounds. This project has exponentially grown, and in December 2024 we had the privilege of taking out almost 100 kids with the help of our boat partnerships: Ocean Sports, Kohala Divers, Adventure X Boat Tours, Da Whale Boat, Holoholo Kai, and Hawaii Boat Clubs. We pay the overhead as safety and professionalism is a top priority…but most of these boat give up a huge portion of profit so we can afford to do what we do. Please support them when coming to the Big Island.
Future Vision
Captain Kelsey and team have a heart to help strengthen and encourage kids all over the world by connecting them to their own natural resources in a fun and safe way. When pure joy can be experienced, hope can be found and healing can begin. When kids can live healthy lives, they become healthy members of their community: better parents, dependable employees, great leaders, and faithful friends
