Remember last year when Kelly Slater and Shane Dorian partnered up with Omaze? It was a simple premise: enter to win by donating, sit back, and hope your name was picked. Well, they’re doing it again. It’s Fiji! Part Deux.
The last time this happened, of course, a bunch of internet assholes were very upset about who won. It was a non-surfer named Staci from Hermosa Beach, CA, and the internet assholes were livid. “SHE DOESN’T DESERVE IT!” They screamed, frantically stabbing their keyboards, veins bulging in strange places. “I deserve it because I can stand up on a piece of foam and I surf and I entered too and SHE DOESN’T DESERVE IT!” It might’ve been funny if it weren’t so awful, but it was awful. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that the point of the trip wasn’t to go surfing–it was to raise money for charity.
Kelly, Shane, Staci, and her niece on last year’s trip.
So they’re doing it again because the last time–despite the internet assholes–was a smashing success. If you win, you get to take a friend to Tavarua, stay in a luxury bungalow, and generally do incredible Tavarua things for free. Well, for whatever you donated, at least. And if you don’t win, you’ve still helped out.
So this time, if (God forbid) a non-surfer wins, internet assholes, listen up: please, please, PLEASE, don’t be an internet asshole. Don’t enter to win. Enter to help out a worthy cause. All donations of more than $10 support MORE Than Sport and Borneo Orangutan Survival Australia.
Here’s a bit about what your money is supporting:
MORE Than Sport is raising funds for the Keiki Classic. This initiative supports the youth of Hawaii with education, opportunities, and experiences to help their future flourish. Shane is so passionate about nurturing the youth in his community through this event and using funds to provide more kids with the means to get out there and follow their dreams.
Borneo Orangutan Survival Australia (BOSA) works to save the orangutan by rescuing and rehabilitating them, with an ultimate goal of releasing them back to the forest where they will be safe from human development, poaching, and farming. To save the orangutan is to protect Borneo’s ancient and lowland rainforests.
Enter to win/donate HERE.
