HONOLULU — The Honolulu-based nonprofit organization Surfing The Nations is returning for the 2nd Annual Surfing and Body Boarding Competition at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Held at the Sea Beach, or the “world’s longest beach,” the event will in part raise
HONOLULU — The Honolulu-based nonprofit organization Surfing The Nations is returning for the 2nd Annual Surfing and Body Boarding Competition at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Held at the Sea Beach, or the “world’s longest beach,” the event will in part raise money for its host country, one of the poorest, most overpopulated countries in the world.
The four-member Surfing The Nations team will host the contest some time between Oct. 1 and Oct. 18.
According to a Surfing the Nations press release, every surfer in the contest will take home a prize, no matter where they finish, and the group will distribute clothes and toys to several refugee camps in and around Cox’s Bazar.
Last year’s team donated seven surfboards and seven body boards to the new local surfers, the release states. A surf camp for the youth was also started last year, called Bangladesh Surf Club.
STN is currently looking for sponsorships from surf companies for this year’s event.
Surfing The Nations is a division of Kalihi-based ministry, Send Hope, which feeds approximately 1,500 people weekly and provides 24-hour emergency food distribution in conjunction with the Hawaii Food Bank, and works with youth at risk, the release states.
For more information, visit www.surfingthenations.com.
