2019 Edition

We want to surf the beach clean! We, Lune and Duuk made our own surfboard from plastic things we found on the Banana Beach that we live in Marocco! We love the ocean and the beach, but do not like the plastic and trash that is everywhere. Together with Jalal, the best local board shaper in Tamraght, we made a surfboard out of recycled plastic and re-used the foam of an old surfboard that we found on the beach that Jalal reshaped to a small board. My mum told us that when she was young she would go by all houses to collect old paper/newspapers etc. and you could bring it to the paper recycle factory and they give you per kilo some money. We want to do the same, but then with plastic and other trash from the beach, and per kilo that you take, you can win special “Banana points”. And with the Banana points you can buy our Banana Board. We just made two Banana Boards now, but want to win this prize to make more boards to give to kids that deserve it because they helped. (And when we win we can maybe also really sell Banana boards also for money to pay older people with real money when they also clean the beach or bring the plastic to the plastic recycle company in Sidi Bibi. We live in Marocco now and a lot of kids here want to surf but can not buy a board since their parents do not have a lot of money. If they help us collecting the plastic then they can buy a surfboard from the points they deserved. We are sure that always when you take a wave with the Banana board that you really worked for, you will be very proud, much more then when you just got a surfboard from your parents. And it is also a cool story to tell other people in the sea because we think everybody will be maybe jealous when they see how cool it is and then if you can tell other kids how you can get one. And if you help, everybody can get a Banana board; you buy it with 3/5 Banana points or with money. But you can also buy other things with the points and we have already people that want to help; bus tickets to go to school (so that you do not have to walk to school, since some of our friends have to walk more then an hour to school through the mountains in the morning), medicins or a doctors visit if you are sick and even an surgery operation for kids that have real problems.