Are you adventurous...
...and do you want to make your contribution to making the world a cleaner place? Then join this active sailing holiday where you can help Clean Beach Pirates clean beaches in Greece!
The Clean Beach Pirates is a volunteer organization that cleans up plastic waste found on the beaches and harbors of the Greek islands in the Ionian Sea.
Join us,
support us en let’s make this world a cleaner place!
The captain of the boat (ONAN), Nol is of Dutch origin and has been sailing in Greece for 20 years now. His co-skipper Antoine is French. They met in Spring 2019 while repairing Antoine's boat and they started sailing together.
The idea of collecting waste came naturally when they set foot on land in Sarakiniko Bay on the island of Ithaca. The beach was full of garbage, they started picking it up, then filling garbage bags, finding big bulky garbage, like tires, empty jerry cans, paint cans etc. For them it was not possible to leave the beach like that, so they loaded everything they could into the dinghy and went back to the boat. When they came back on board they started talking together, so that's how the idea of collecting the waste to be germinated came about. Every time we visit a bay it paints the same picture, paradisiacal beaches covered with garbage. This project was started in May 2019 and there is still a lot to do!
Our mission
Cleaning beaches
We want to clean at least one beach every day, using the wind's ability to take us from beach to beach, each time different. Smaller beaches, such as Kastos Bay (in the southeast), can fill up to 20 100-liter bags with waste. Most of these beaches are accessible only by boat, but even the most visited ones are full of waste. Generally the waste is hidden in the bushes, most of the time deliberately. To give in a idea of the magnitude - At the end of June we were a crew of 13 volunteers and we filled more than 100 bags in one week, not to mention the bulky ones (that don't fit in a bag)!
Creating awareness
Changing people’s behavior starts with creating awareness about the global garbage problem, a problem that concerns us all and that we can only solve together. Firstly we want to get people personally involved and then also we need the involvement of the local or regional governments. Since we started only recently, we did not have time yet to solicit Greek public institutions. We do not want this movement to be limited only to Greece, our goal is to become bigger, working internationally with other boats joining in our cause.
We clean beaches and ports and publish every day about our work on Facebook and Instagram.
Our team consists completely of volunteers who help us with cleaning the cleaning, posting on social media, finding new volunteers for the boat, answering the mail, updating the site, planning, etc etc.
Support us
We are looking for funds desperately. At the moment the team is being runned completely by volunteers who donate their time and devotion and invest a small amount of money, paying for the cost of running the project.
- You can help us simply by donating to our organization
- Bigger investments to secure the project
- Cooperations
The message we wish to communicate is that we are all capable of taking action and, above all, of sounding a loud alarm about the environmental state in which we have put our countries.
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