Dear lovers of the ocean and Gili Trawangan!
 
We are closing in to Ocean’s Day on Trawangan on Saturday 9th June. Whilst trying to include everyone and every business sector in some part we will be running activities throughout the day and similar to what we did in April for Earth Day.
 
Social Media
Please follow and invite as many people to the event on Facebook by following this link or forward to your social media experts. This is where all news and updates will be shared.
https://web.facebook.com/events/1881655875199151/?active_tab=about
We have attached some posters sharing information about the event, please E-share where you find fit and print for customers as needed. We will print a short supply off as well, so please get in touch if you would like some. Also the E-banner can be share on pages.
 
 
Diving
More information will be available soon for the morning island-wide underwater clean up, in collaboration with Project Aware and SSI equivalent as many dive shops as possible will be partaking in a Dive Against Debris or underwater clean up in the morning.
 
Island Clean Up
In the afternoon, we have teamed up with mobile application Global Alert App to start to log all the areas on the island where we find rubbish dumped illegally. This is time to take action! All the areas that you travel past on your way to work, or near where you stay, if you find trash on the streets – please take a photo of it and upload it to this geospatial app. Once we have enough logged areas we can work out how many teams of volunteers we need to clean it, and we will send teams together on June 9th after 2pm to clean areas in sections. We aim to get everyone involved so please spread the word of this app as well.
 
Fundraiser
In the evening, Tir Na Nog is hosting their first ever Beer Fest themed night as another fundraising event. This time to keep with the Ocean Day activities and our current campaigns to protect Gili oceans and reefs, we are fundraising for additional mooring buoys to be installed in critical areas to stop the devastating effects of anchor damage in busy areas, particularly before the height of high season kicks in.
 
Irish bar are planning to host a Beer Fest themed night full of team games, carnival games with a Hawaiian themed dress code and food and drinks specials. As always, the success of our local charity fundraising nights depends hugely on prizes donated by the businesses on and around Gili Trawangan that is seeing the direct impact of for a raffle that will take place on the night (tickets will be sold prior) and an auction that will be near the end of the festivities. As there will be plenty of non-team carnival games and fun, we need as many smaller prizes as possible to raise as much money from the games.
We are gratefully accepting anything from drinks vouchers, T-shirts, fun dives, meal or coffee vouchers all the way to night stays or boat tickets, or whatever you can afford to give.
 
Please reply to this email with any prize donations you have to give with the value of prize, we will create vouchers for each unless you supply us with a voucher.
 
 
Funds aimed for:
New mooring lines for local and public boats in high season to reduce the damage and destruction of Gili coral reefs due to anchoring:
For 10 new moorings and 20 new mooring blocks:
(a general guide)
Cement, US$10 per sacks = $500
Sand, US$40 per cubic*       $130
Gravel, US$50 per cubic * $160
Steel bars (50mm diameter), US$10 per piece of 1,5mlong*$600
steel drums US$18 per drum * $360
hose pipe, hose pipe 10cm diameter per meter= US$5 = $300
rope, 500 meters of thick rope (3-4cm diameter): US$300 per 100meters= $500
buoys: US$15 * = $50
$2,600 (36,500,000IDR)
 
If we manage to break a target (we will be extremely happy!) then further funds could be used on additional moorings or a huge Biorock designed by all shops involved to create an additional underwater tourist attraction for scuba divers and snorkelers to the Gilis to visit and enjoy whilst rebuilding the coral reefs.