Make Them Sailors

Make Them Sailors is an organization that works as a platform to provide community based sailing schools with tools to empower children from all around the world. Make Them Sailors (MTS) is an organization that works as a platform to provide community based sailing schools with tools to replicate this model around the world. It´s mission is to inspire, encourage and empower sailors to design and implement effective inclusive sailing schools with focus on environmental education by sharing best practices, giving them visibility and providing opportunities for collaboration. Everything started with a sailing coach struggling to find sailing material and gear to teach a fisherman kid froMake Them Sailors (MTS) is an organization that works as a platform to provide community based sailing schools with tools to replicate this model around the world. Everything started with a sailing coach struggling to find sailing material and gear to teach a fisherman kid from Colombia how to sail. Martin Manrique, Make Them Sailors’ co-founder, shared a simple video https://bit.ly/3t73H9Q to ask his friends to give a second life to their garage-stored sailing gear and was instantly shocked by the response of the sailing community after receiving materials from all over. As a result, he co-founded MTS with the purpose of advancing and supporting the creation of community based sailing schools. MTS currently supports three inclusive sailing schools: in the Bahamas (Eleuthera Sailing Academy), Argentina (Capitanes de Barrio) and Uruguay (Viento en Popa). These schools provide kids from vulnerable communities with the opportunity to sail in order to reach their potentials by fostering personal development, environmental education and to create new job opportunities for them in the sailing industry. MTS has a strong focus on environmental impact through a twofold strategy:

-“RE-SAIL”: Our community based sailing schools are set up and promoted by reusing boats and sailing gear to prolong their lifetime (second-life boats, collection campaigns of used sailing gear, repair workshops)
-“ENVIRONMENTAL CAPTAINS”: our sailing programs include local environmental education to empower our sailors as champions by protecting the waters they sail on. MTS has a strong focus on environmental impact through a twofold strategy:

-“RE-SAIL”: Our community based sailing schools are set up and promoted by reusing boats and sailing gear to prolong their lifetime (second-life boats, collection campaigns of used sailing gear, repair workshops)
-“ENVIRONMENTAL CAPTAINS”: our sailing programs include local environmental education to empower our sailors as champions by protecting the waters they sail on.

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The world nowadays is so connected and it is so easy to help. Send us your old stuff and we will make sure it will get to the kids of the islands or simply donate a few dollars so we can buy the boat from that grumpy fisherman. One of the main things we show Juan Pablo is that in between sailors you always help each other, so we count on you!