Small Things Foundation

30/06/2026

A stoke-sharing story connecting African surfers from the South, to the West.

A few facts about Sao Tome & Principe 🇸🇹

Population: 200K (second smallest country in Africa)
GDP per capita: $2960pp/year (195th poorest country on Earth)
Surf Shops: 0

Camera & Edit : Jamie Nye
Track : Pablo Alakori / Adekunle Gold

22/03/2026

Taswin and Jean surfed so well today, advancing all the way through. OB got hard scoring from judges and missed making finals by 0.2, 5th place overall and a huge result for his first ever trip outside SA!

Focus then shifted to Jean and despite some pretty terrible waves he found a few gems, and finished in a close matchup coming 2nd to Senegal’s

So proud of how these two carried themselves, represented 🇿🇦 and surfed at a high level throughout the event. We’ve had an awesome travel mission together in this beautiful country. And made a lot of new friends in English and French!

Big Thankyou to our hosts and for looking after us so well and running such a brilliant event.

Merci beaucoup a tous 🇨🇮🇸🇳🇱🇷🇬🇭🇸🇱

22/03/2026

& smashed their round3 heats and into the Quarterfinals 🔥🔥🔥🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

21/03/2026

Both and convincingly won their open heats today. Waves are a lot smaller but not that different to a summer day at the Berg, just in boardshorts! Great way to kickoff their campaign and representing 🇿🇦 surfing. Rnd 3 tmoro morning and promise of more swell

21/03/2026

12/02/2026

We have an exciting opportunity to send 2 local surfers to compete in the Ivory Coast Open 20-22 March in the beautiful Assinie, West Africa.

Last year was a lifechanging experience for our 2 surfers, who both did exceptionally well against Africa's best (1st and 7th!)

We'd love to make this happen again, but need support from the community to cover the costs of getting these young athletes to the big event. We need to raise R60k (€3200) to cover flights, visas and basic travel expenses.

If you are a surfer who has enjoyed the gifts of the ocean, and especially surf travel, please consider throwing a few bones in the crowdfund below 💙 🏄‍♂️ 🇿🇦

https://www.givengain.com/campaign/lets-get-our-local-surfers-to-compete-internationally-33045

20/01/2026

WE DID IT!! 🥳🙏🙈❤️🚌
We finally got our own bus for the boys at The Local Surf Lounge Academy!

No more long walks for the little ones, no more being stuck surfing the bad conditions at the local beach when its cooking on the other side, no more hassles getting to contests... more outings, more opportunities!

We are so chuffed, still half cant believe it has happened.
We started with a crowdfund a year ago, managing to raise about 15% needed 🙏 then it went very quiet. Miraculously an opportunity came to submit an application to the German Lotto ‘Bingo’, who loved the proposal and sponsored us the full balance needed to get our 16-seat Toyota Quantum. We are beyond grateful and have already done the first of many outings with the crew!

13/01/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7416742560636760065

Since joining last year, Jason was top of the list I wanted to get some urgent support to. The work he does is incredible, and I'm honoured to have been part of the process to get his teams what they need, and to continue working together into 2026 and beyond

We are so excited to welcome Jason Poleman and his Just Planting Seeds NPO into the Helpmore family. They brings a high-level rugby program to the youth of one of Cape Town's toughest townships, Manenberg. In 2025 their boys and girls teams achieved a near 100% win-rate (130/7) often against teams w...

01/10/2025

Feeding our many hungry young surfers is a big part of our program but it’s always a challenge with a small budget.

This week we started an amazing ‘resource-share’ partnership with the amazing .org.za who are sharing 25 litres of soup and bread with LSLA, 3 times a week!! It’s a huge deal for us, and we are so grateful for the nutritional support that is so important for these growing young men.

A big Thankyou to Shadrick at The Haven, and to Sean Peche at Helpmore SA for connecting us