Ocean Wishes Primary Goal
What we do is take action! Our primary goal is to help children worldwide learn about their ocean environment and the conservation and protection of marine life and habitats. From educating kids and their parents to be ambassadors of the sea to protecting endangered marine animals, Ocean Wishes is dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving our underwater world for future generations.
Promotion through opportunity: Ocean Wishes allows children worldwide to enjoy the ocean and become certified divers.
Protection and preservation through education: Ocean Wishes provides information and education about ways to protect and preserve marine environments.
What Ocean Wishes Does
- Our Make-An-Ocean-Wish Program grants the wishes of underprivileged children and their families worldwide to participate in a week-long Kids Sea Camp.
- Provides local sponsorship for children to become certified divers in their diving destination communities, such as Fiji, the Philippines, St. Lucia, Roatan, and Bonaire, and to participate in PADI scuba diving programs such as Junior Open Water, Seal Team, and SASY programs.
- Provides funds for books, marine art programs, and educational material for school groups.
Running for the Ocean
In 2023, Ocean Wishes started an annual 5K walk/run called “Run for the Ocean.” This new event has been an excellent fundraiser for Ocean Wishes over the past two years. The first year, we were at the Little Cayman Beach resort in Little Cayman, and this year, Ocean Wishes was in St. Lucia at Anse Chastanet. Over the past five years, we have raised over 10K. (See our gallery)
Our projects what we do:
- Creating fresh water and school supplies for the Malolo School in Fiji.
- Funds and school supplies are needed for the Mountain School in the Philippines.
- Funds for the Mud Whole School in Honduras.
- Donations for the clinic are caring for and rehabilitating injured Mosquito Indian divers and people with spinal injuries in Honduras.
- Every year, Ocean Wishes donates to the Reef Renewal project in Bonaire, creating a large community of new coral populations.
- Donating money to the Lichstein Project for Troubled Boys in Bonaire, Woman’s Diver Hall of Fame Charities, Ocean Pals, Oceans Four Youth, Shark Savers, World Wildlife Federation, and PADI Project Aware.
Ocean Wishes offers children worldwide the opportunity to enjoy a week-long family dive adventure. Sponsorship for underprivileged families worldwide, from inner cities, or going through hardship or loss to participate in an ocean adventure.
This is what we do. The question is, what do you do to save the planet?