Beyond the Surface International

Their mission is to engage local youth through the power of play, creativity, and science to address social and ecological issues impacting their fishing communities and marine environment. Their objective is to work together with traditional fishing communities to find and develop solutions through a participatory process, and then collaborate through local to multilateral partnerships to implement them.​ They envision a healthy planet with happy coastal communities situated along a thriving ocean. They aspire for a global society that considers access to a healthy environment as a basic human right. They imagine a world that values nonviolent communication as a tool to resolve conflicts and reveres humanity and nature's intrinsic interconnectedness for their collective social-ecological resilience.