Our Mission
Share The Stoke Foundation South Africa (STSFSA) is a non-profit dedicated to empowering kids through the transformative power of surfing. By gifting surfboards and equipment to partner programs across South Africa, Africa, India, and Asia, we help children discover discipline, leadership, and community—getting them off the streets and into the waves.
What we do
- Gift new and recycled surfboards and gear.
- Partner with surf therapy programs in South Africa, Africa, India, and Asia.
- We offer skills Development Programs.
- Host community surfing events and transformational surfing games.
- Launch Surf Academies that combine education, life skills, and surfing.
- We offer learn to surf lessons.
our impact
We partner with numerous organizations across South Africa, Africa, India, and Asia, including:
- Waves For Change
- Rainbow of Hope
- Surfers Not Street Children
- 9Miles Project
- Surf 4 Life
- Surf Pop
- The Aleph Foundation (Jeffrey's Bay)
- Sisonke Surf (Durban)
- Sentinal Ocean Alliance
- Trafalgar Saints Surfing Club (South Coast KZN)
- The Surfer Kids (Mossel Bay)
- International partners in India, Mozambique, Ghana, and Indonesia
All of our partners utilize surfing as a form of mental therapy, social development, and transformation.
our supporters
We're grateful for support from:
- FireWire Surfboards International (official sponsor)
- Surfing South Africa
- WaveScape
- Zigzag Surfing Magazine
- National and Local government - Sports and Recreation
- Renlaw
- Switch
All of our partners utilize surfing as a form of mental therapy, social development, and transformation.
