The NGO Provide The Slide is devoted to gathering surfboards and gear all through Europe. They gather the fabric (boards, fins, covers, wetsuits) and restore it if obligatory earlier than sending it. The San Sebastian firm Pukas collaborates with this challenge
More than 200 surfboards have been collected 5 months in the past on the boardwalk in Zarautz (Guipúzcoa) to be despatched to Africa. There have been so many who the NGO Provide The Slide couldn’t transport them in a single journey, so the San Sebastian firm Pukas, accountable for organizing the gathering occasion, saved them in a warehouse in Oiartzun. Now, in a second expedition, a few of these boards have already headed for the African coasts.
The goal is that these surfboards have a second life and that those that observe this sport within the Ivory Coast, Sao Tome or Principe have the suitable gear. “It just isn’t a matter of sending outdated and ineffective junk, however boards in good situation that now we have typically stopped utilizing,” explains Adur Letamendi, Project Director of the Pukas Group.
Most of the time surfboards are not used as a result of the bodily stage of the surfer has modified or the kind of waves which can be going to be surfed have modified, “however not as a result of the fabric has rotted”, he factors out. Hence nearly all of the boards assembled by Pukas final September have been in good situation. “We thought we have been doing them a favor, however the fact is that a lot of those that donated their boards excitedly admitted that they cherished the thought that somebody was going to make use of that board that they had saved for months or years,” provides Letamendi.
New consignments of tables
Of course, the Swedish-German NGO Provide The Slide, promoter of the challenge, collects the boards all through Europe, inspects them and repairs them in case they’ve small harm to the fins or every other factor earlier than placing them within the containers wherein they journey. To Africa. The objective is for them to achieve their vacation spot in the very best situation and thus be capable to experience the waves on the west coast of the African continent.
Some of the tables despatched by the NGO Provide The Slide to AfricaProvide The Slide
The San Sebastian firm Pukas collaborates with Provide The Slide and of their materials assortment campaigns they admit every kind of kit components, however they do level out that they’re particularly demanding with the state of neoprene fits: “If they’re in good situation they’re welcome, if not, maintain them till you change them.”
The first cargo of about 50 boards was made in September after a profitable assortment marketing campaign that exceeded all expectations. The second expedition with a number of dozen extra boards has simply began, however Pukas doesn’t rule out persevering with to collaborate with the NGO as a result of “they’re unbelievable individuals, with a stable and really actual challenge.”