A presentation about the educational and charitable work of Oceans Project and using the Pacific Ocean row to raise funds for Oceans Project work.

1. Sarah Weldon

12. WHY?

13. WHY?
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1) Knowing English as a foreign language can
help to get a job, especially in tourism and
business. (snake charming, scuba diving).
2)Knowing English as a foreign language can
help apply for foreign aid and NGO funding.
3) Communities want to know how to care for
and protect their environment.
4) Connecting with peers worldwide, helps to
understand western and other values.
Understanding of cultures, and needs.
5) More competitive for jobs (rural, city, proof).

14. WHY?
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Education allows young people to lift
themselves and their families out of poverty.
Education empowers young people, gives them
a passport to opportunity and equality.
Education can include knowledge on nutrition,
child care, basic first aid.....saves lives.

15. THE PROBLEM?

16. THE SOLUTION

17. HOW ROZ HELPED?
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Read her blog and website, listened to podcast
to practice English as a foreign language.
She got Guinness World Records, an MBE, and
never gave up, taking things oar stroke by oar
stroke. Inspiration, Female. Never gave up.
Environmental encounters and stories (plastic
pollution, fishing). Brought the ocean alive.
Media coverage and charity donations.

20. HOW WILL THAT HELP?
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Raise funds for Oceans Project, £500 provides an
educational package to 1 children's project.
Push communications technology to the brink. Teach
'live from the boat'. 3D film.
Collect scientific data that will help understand our
planet.
Connect young people together with peers worldwide.
Inspire young people, world firsts, world records.
Perseverence.
Passion for human endurance, psychological,
physiological.

21. HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED!
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Podcasts and videos online
www.oceansproject.com
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Skype in the Classroom
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Facebook and Twitter @oceansproject
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Use the Frog online platform, weekly STEM
challenge.
Raise funds to get your name or school logo on
the boat.
Come and see the boat at Technopop London.