For Children to Flourish Projects
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Access For All Program
It’s simple. We provide free boat trips to our local kids. When we connect kids and their support systems to the beauty of nature: hope can be found, dreams can ignite, and even healing can begin.
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Maui Resilency Project
Maui/Lahaina Resiliency Program. Our plan is to empower local in Maui to use their maritime resources to give back to those who have been impacted by the devastating Lahaina fires. Internationally, we plan to partner with NGO and non-profits to connect people to their natural resources to allow healing and hope to ignite. Post pandemic, many of these third world communities have not fully recovered from the pandemic. We are a tool to help jump-start dreams, passions, and purpose.
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Leadership Development
Coming Soon
50% mainland kids 50% from Hawaii
We are so excited to begin our leadership development camp. A collaborative effort, our goal is to raise up future and well equipped leaders trained specifically to ask better questions and become better listeners. The ocean and boats are the tool we will use to navigate these conversations in a beautiful, fun, inspiring and safe way
2024 Kids in 2024
Because of your generosity and support, we’ve completed our first round of 100% free ocean adventures for local children, families and those working for and with the next generation. It was our mission to respectfully utilize the Hawaiian oceanic resources to teach/inspire sustainability and positive character development while encouraging kids or those that work with kids in their dreams and life goals. The joy is to see the smiles on many who have never experienced being out on a boat, yet have been on Big Island for many years. We witnessed trepidation turned to bravery. Several times the kids burst into songs of gratitude for their day, their island,their culture and this opportunity. Our goal is to take out 2024 kids in 2024, but we need your help to achieve this goal. To give a kid a day of fun, support, and resources costs $150.
December of 2022- For Children to Flourish hosted the first Flotilla, taking out 43 kids from Puna and their mentors using five Big Island boats: Adventure X Boat Tours, Captain Chads, Pua Ilima Sailing, and Da Whale Boat. We provided 20 hours of employment and 10 hours were donated by the Adventure X Boat tours staff. Many of these kids hadn’t even been to the west side of the Big Island. It was an honor and a privilege to serve these kids, reaffirm they are loved, and to encourage them in their dreams while exposing them to dolphins, fish, and coral reef. We’ve been told, a year later, this trip is still talked about and some now even want to have a career in the maritime world. December 9, 2023, we plan to take out 48 kids in a Flotilla out of the South Kawaihae Boat Ramp./
Future Vision
Captain Kelsey and team have a heart to help strengthen and encourage kids all over the world by connecting them to their own natural resources in a fun and safe way. When pure joy can be experienced, hope can be found and healing can begin. When kids can live healthy lives, they become healthy members of their community: better parents, dependable employees, great leaders, and faithful friends
