This project includes cleanup of the Kwale river, a baseline survey, and a mural-painting project in the coastal county of Kwale, Kenya. The mural and graphics will create sensitisation to both literate and illiterate people about the importance of keeping the river clean.

Saltwater Classroom is a nonprofit that runs weeklong workshops focused on ocean science and conservation for young students. Through SOA support, Saltwater Classroom has pivoted our in-person programming to the virtual world, creating a unique opportunity for students across the world to connect with one another and learn from ocean experts. In November, Saltwater Classroom ran a three week virtual workshop that featured live sessions, encouraged hands-on activities, and fostered creative inquiry amongst its participants.

Due to the lack of sustainable energy in Cameroon, coastal community members rely on coastal mangroves to fuel fish-drying, greatly degrading the mangrove forest. This project educates coastal community members about the importance of the mangrove ecosystem to the ocean and the environment. Through capacity-building training, like how to grow mangrove nurseries and planting coconut trees as alternative energy sources, they empower the most vulnerable populations to restore mangrove ecosystems and protect the shoreline.

This program intends to solve problems such as the lack of knowledge related to marine life and marine pollution, aiming to educate children to become ambassadors or protectors of the oceans in the future. The plastic found on the beach during cleanup activities can be used to produce household items, toys, and more objects from a 3D printer, thereby vitalizing this program by selling these produced goods.

HAZla por tu Playa is a national campaign to keep our ocean, seas, lakes and rivers free from pollution. This movement started in Peru (reaching 22 regions) and has now extended to 11 countries, continuing to grow with each edition. Over the 8 editions of HAZla we have cleaned over 1000 beaches, rivers, wetlands & lakes with around 200 tons of debris collected and the success of knowing that our efforts not only cleaned but prevented more plastic from reaching the sea.

To promote and raise awareness about a municipal ordinance regulating single-use plastics, Save Philippines Seas and Plastic Battle will build a mobile educational display targeting market-goers and vendors in Tapaz, Capiz. The display will serve as both a food cart an "information booth" that will give out reusable bags and information to those in the market over the course of 2 months.

"Amigos del Estero, Amigos del Oceano" educates children 8-14 years old in 4 neighborhoods of Guayaquil informed by IOC-UNESCO ocean principles; for this project, they will train 120 Ecoleaders and create a storybook about mangrove ecosystems, as well as facilitate student trips to cleanup local mangroves

This project will visit and film 7 islands of the Seychelles to highlight and document biodiversity, island and marine conservation initiatives and challenges, marine protected areas and research. Seychellois will be interviewed and featured and the videos will be translated into the 3 official Seychelles languages.

Working with governments, non-profits, and commercial customers, Hohonu designs, builds, and deploys IoT sensor networks along waterways, delivering data products to audiences that previously didn’t have access to such tech. The company has contracts, including SECOORA (secoora.org) across 14 states to deploy its real-time IoT sensor network in coastlines, rivers, and streams.