#KiteTeam

CURRENTLY TRAVELLED:

Team: 248km

Leila: 125km

Jules: 123km

We're the #kiteteam raising funds for the Peru Mobulid Project by participating in the Cross The Oceans challenge 2023 by The Manta Trust ! Together we will travel as far as we can, by kitesurfing in different places all over the world. Each of us will raise €100 in funds to contribute to the the kite challenge! We currently have a small team of 3, hoping to raise €300 :)

Cross the Oceans Challenge

Cross the Oceans is a fundraiser challenge set up by The Manta Trust!

"Started in 2021, each year we travel across the oceans to one of our affiliate project locations, raising money for them along the way. So far, we have travelled 9,867km and raised £13,664 towards the conservation of manta rays."

During the 2023 'Cross the Oceans' challenge, participants with their own sports discipline such as running, swimming, kayaking or KITESURFING(!) will collectively travel 5,042 km from Mexico to Peru, and raise money to support the Peru Mobulid Project.

The cause:

Funds raised during this challenge will be used in Peru to create an identification guide for manta and devil ray species (with a focus on fresh and dried pectoral fins) that will be distributed to fisheries inspectors, field observers, and Peruvian government customs officials.

📖 The objective of this guide is to improve the work this group of professionals are carrying out, to improve the data that is collected in the country and to improve the control of the species that try to enter Peru through the land borders (for example, from Ecuador, where all mobulid species are protected).

📈 In addition, the guides will be distributed through capacity-building workshops in coastal communities. These funds will also help to continue collecting data on the mobulids fishery in the principal landings port and conducting surveys of artisanal fishermen regarding interactions at sea with these species.

To join our kite team:

- Click below on 'Join the Team' and set up your own account which is connected to the #KiteTeam

- Register your time and/or distance after every session on Challenge Hound, to register click here

- Commit to a distance of at least 100km

- Register your time and/or distance after every session on Challenge Hound, to register click here

- Challenge hound will be used to map the team’s progress by either automatically syncing activities from your fitness app or manually inputting your efforts. As a team, we will combine our individual efforts and complete the full distance in one month. Are you up to the challenge of crossing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean with Team Manta?"

- Share this fundraiser (https://www.justgiving.com/team/kite) !

- Become sponsored by family/friends or others, with a minimum of £/€ 100 pp.

(For example you partner sponsors €20, you parents sponsor €30, your grandma sponsors €10 and collectively your friends sponsor €40! Tada that's €100! )

To view the Cross the Oceans Progress visit: https://www.challengehound.com/challenge/8df600f0-e7e5-11ed-a9b9-e3d9845e8c42

To learn more about the Cross the Oceans challenge visit: https://www.mantatrust.org/cross-the-oceans

Manta Trust: https://www.mantatrust.org/

For any questions, please e-mail: leila.scheltema@mantatrust.org