As part of Port Denarau Marinas corporate responsibility we work hard to assist in the local community through sponsorship and assistance. Below are the organisations and charities that we actively support:
Would you like to help Sea Mercy’s efforts to assist our remote communities during these times of economic hardship?
Once restrictions are relaxed, if you are planning to cruise Fiji’s outer islands and could offer us your eyes and ears, please contact:
Jonathan Robinson
Sea Mercy Coordinator.
[email protected] Vodafone/WhatsApp +679 928 1460 Digicel +679 781 0097
Leadership Fiji has today signed up Port Denarau Marina, Fiji’s premier marina facility as its first partner from the tourism industry in the Silver category.
This new partnership has come at an opportune time, as Leadership Fiji winds up its 2020 activities, and prepares to take its programs to another level.
Port Denarau Marina’s Chief Executive Officer, Cynthia Rasch said “We are delighted to be associated with Leadership Fiji’s program since the past few years. This sponsorship is a commitment of our ongoing support to the valuable education that their program provides. We believe in Leadership Fiji’s mission to building a better nation through the development of progressive leadership and strategic foresight capacity and look forward to growing our partnership further.”
Port Denarau Marina has been supporting Leadership Fiji on their site visits during their participants tourism industry session over the last three years.
Leadership Fiji’s Chief Executive Officer, Sharyne Fong said, “We are grateful to Port Denarau Marina for their belief and confidence in Leadership Fiji and for supporting our mission towards the development of Fiji’s leaders. Securing partnerships and relationships with a wide variety of businesses demonstrates the willingness of the corporate sector to invest in the importance of nurturing true leadership to advance our efforts in nation building. Leadership Fiji is proud to confirm this new partnership with Port Denarau Marina.”
The partnership was sealed today with the handover of their $5,000 sponsorship cheque.
A mission to educate communities worldwide on the fight against plastic waste has drawn the Odyssey Race for Water vessel to Fiji.
The Odyssey, a unique shaped catamaran, left Lorient, northwestern France, in April 2017 for a five-year expedition around the world in order to propose, on one hand, solutions for the preservation of the oceans against plastic pollution.
The other purpose is to promote the energy transition from the use of fossil fuels to clean renewable forms of energy as exemplified by Race for Water, which sails exclusively through a solar-hydrogen-kite hybrid propulsion.
Port Denarau Limited general manager Cynthia Rasch said Race for Water, ambassador, The Odyssey Race for Water 2017-2021 arrived in the country on December 21 and will remain until January 19, 2019.
“The Odyssey has chosen Port Denarau Marina as its official marina during their Fiji stopover,” she said.
“Indeed, as at each of their stopovers, they plan to organise in Fiji with local partners a press conference (with local authorities on board), school tours with a special Ocean Preservation exhibition, general public conferences to discuss local issues and think about the implementation of solutions such as the plastic energy project they propose.”
At each stopover, the Race for Water Foundation develops local actions according to the three pillars of its Learn/Share/Act programme:
About the vessel
In 2010, Swiss entrepreneur Marco Simeoni established the Foundation in Lausanne and devoted all his entrepreneurial spirit for the benefit of the oceans.
With his passion for the sea, he decided in 2015 to launch a scientific and environmental expedition, the Race for Water Odyssey, to make the first one-swoop global assessment of our ocean’s plastic pollution.
Since April 2017, Race for Water has embarked on a second oceanic tour aiming to provide concrete, technology-based solutions for the preservation of the oceans.
With their partner ETIA, then developed a leading-edge technology of high temperature pyrolysis to recover the high calorific value of plastic litter and convert it into an energy-rich synthesised gas (syngas) which can be use to produce electricity.
Source: Fiji Sun
Port Denarau Marina is proud to support the Fiji Thundercloud Rumble 2018 with their aim to ‘Surf for Ocean Sustainability’. This support will help us get one step closer to our vision of ensuring the enhancement of Fiji’s maritime tourism industry and protecting our distinct marine environment for future generations.More
Mamanuca Environment Society commenced with our Oceanlovers Program with lots of enthusiasm and excitement and have had very good feedback from the communities. More
Oceanlovers is on a mission to share adventures inspired by the ocean and to protect one of the earth’s most important resources. More
Eight million metric tons of plastic winds up in our oceans each year. That’s enough to cover every foot of coastline around the world with five full trash bags of plastic. It’s hard to believe but there is more microplastic in the ocean than there are stars in the Milky Way. The Pacific Ocean covers half of the world’s surface and is the largest ecosystem in the world. More
When the South Pacific’s premier Superyacht facility and the International Marina of the Year (2015-2016) offers to berth your 35m vessel for free, provide your non-profit organization with free office space, and provide as much storage space as needed to stage your disaster response equipment and aid, you say ‘yes’ and ‘thank you’ very quickly. With no strings attached, that is what Nigel Skeggs, Director of Port Denarau Marina (Fiji), and his staff are providing Sea Mercy. More
I wanted to let you know that Port Denarau Marina has partnered with Sea Mercy (a US and Fiji based non-profit charity) of which I am now an overseeing trustee. I am very passionate about this organization not only because of the incredible programs it provides the thousands of “at risk” remote islands in the South Pacific, but for the amazing role that the international yachting community gets to play in each program.
Port Denarau Marina are proud to be associated with Marine Reach who have a long and successful history of medical treatment in distanced communities within Fiji. If you are able to assist in any way please feel free to talk to us or to Marine Reach directly.
MARINE REACH is part of YOUTH WITH A MISSION (YWAM)-an interdenominational and international mission agency involved in over 180 nations with a full time staff of approx 18,000. All in the organization are unpaid volunteers.More
