The Little Optimist Trust
Description
Our mission is to inspire children to look past their present circumstances and look to the future with hope and possibility.
We use the exposure to SAILING as a means to facilitate healing (both mental and physical), as well as to enhance wellbeing and quality of life.
Objectives: We care not only for the mental state of our beneficiaries but also look to their physical needs. In partnership with our key sponsors, we plan, raise funds and manage refurbishment, painting and the brightening up of under resourced medical, educational and child care facilities and institutions.
Optimism is a potent health tonic! Through our talks, books, movies and hospital visits, we inspire kids to be optimistic about their lives and their futures. Our Sailing Academy empowers kids through skills training and therapy. We use our sailing programs as a tool to make children fall in love with the ocean and want to preserve it. We spark their curiosity about working in the sailing and/or maritime industry one day. Our long-term goal is to facilitate pathways for more previously disadvantaged and/or different abled youth to participate and work in these industries.
