Our projects
Reuse plastic: stray toys start their second life
Any stray plastic toys at the beach will be collected and offered to families. Usually traveling tourists wit little kids love to have plastic toys for the beach while they are there. At the end of their stay those things often go to the garbage or are just left at the beach. Next people coming cannot use them but buy their own set and so on. To reduce the amount of buying and throwing away we started to collect the toys, clean them and offer them for a low donation for anyone who needs them. The donation of 50 cents per piece goes directly to Greenpeace. We are collecting since 14th of February 2022.
Place of delivery and pick up: Mermaids4future office. Calle las Conchas 30, 35138 Puerto de Mogan.
Mosaic mermaid mural - please help collecting bottletops
Take part and help nature, people and arts … and just as simple as that:
Become a beautiful part of the art project, the mosaic bottle-top-mermaid.
How to do that? Very easy:
Please help us collect bottle tops, we start to collect from all over the world
What will happen to them?
Step 1. They will be needed to do the art project.
Step 2. The material will later be given away to a social organization.
Step 3. Finally the bottle tops will be recycled.
Recycling at the end is destroying the material for reuse. Before that we would love to upcycle those little round things and let mermaid4future get passionately creative with it. We plan a multicolored mosaic with the plastic bottle-tops in the shape of a huge mermaid. After documentation when being in process the work will be exhibited in public and then all bottle-tops will go into the collection of Canarian ayuntamiento which will give them to a help-and-care organization.
By helping to collect them you do triple good and we thank you for gathering material.
Place of delivery and pick up: Mermaids4future office. Calle las Conchas 30, 35138 Puerto de Mogan.
Ocean clean events
Once in a month all mermaids/aquaman are invited to do some deep clean. This is picking up little stray things that are laying around and collect them. Each time we have lots of fun and surprisingly there is always a lot to find even though it looked clean at first sight. We might start doing little competitions as it starts to be fun making it a challenge and the kids love it the more. They hunt for little bits and have a good time doing it. Their pride in doing this favor to their environment is lightening up their faces. Read more in section " GO Green "
Go green, go beautiful!
Ocean-clean, up cycling, recycling and plastic picking ...Or just this quick gathering of one, two or three little plastic bits flying around: If we all integrate even just little gestures of caring for our environment we might approach happiness in a beautiful simple and profound way.
Uuuuuups ... so how can ocean-clean make you a true beauty?
What does this have to do with beautiful mermaids? Beauty comes from within. Acting responsible, social and being connected to our environment is a way of connecting to our dear planet. A true smile makes every face a beauty. Believing the ancient Greek philosophy we all have a true heart and the seek of doing the right thing is an essential part we are born with. Everybody has that knowledge and it is only a matter of the state of consciousness of the individual in how far we are aware of what it is and how to practically live to fulfill it. The better we are aware of it the more we are able to act and live accordingly. The closer we are able to pursue truth and goodnesses the more are we gleeming of beauty - because true beauty comes within. Its a long walk but a simple fact and still valid since philosophers drew the connecting line - truth, beauty and happiness are connected since man/woman is alive. Recommendable: Read Plato, Sokrates - or maybe to start with let your mind dive into the topic by reading Jostein Gaarder's "Sophie`s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy"
Puh, what big thoughts ... but the nice thing about it: every little deed or gesture brings you a step nearer to that ideal of truth, goodness and happiness. Every little mermaid, grown-up merman, Aquaman, Triton, or other menfolk character is invited to pick up three little stray trash pieces from a natural environment and exchange it for a little shell-necklace, which is a little symbol of the ocean saying Thank you. Even if they get out of their fin that day after our mermaid activity they are still connected to the ocean.
Ok, but how do we become true mermaids please?🧜♀️
Even if your flight might take you back home into your country far away from the ocean you might know a part of you will stay connected - because you are a mermaid within. It is easy and understandable even for the smallest mermaids or aquaboys: if they imagine to be a mermaid/aquaboy they are a creature of the ocean. The ocean is their home. A home is something we care about, we keep it nice and comfortable, clean and in a good shape. This is what a small mermaid/aquaboy wishes naturally for the ocean and is open to learn how to protect it. During an activity of 2 hours we always take some minutes to talk about it and I love the proud and beautiful smile on the young faces when they receive their little present from the ocean, the shell in exchange for their little sweet gesture of handing in three bits of lost garbage. The way its integrated in our programs the topic of nature-protection is a beautiful little detail, helping the ocean, and helping the mermaid to feel like a mermaid/merboy whenever and wherever she or he likes. 🧜♀️
Become a mermaid through and through. Safe the ocean and:
GO GREEN!