It's about empowering young people for coastal and marine conservation in Sri Lanka. This project started in 2015 in Sri Lanka with UNIC Colombo. The project was called Poseidon Army and still, the work continues as follows with more volunteers getting training from us. collecting Marine Debris in Sri Lankan waters, Educating the public, schools on Coastal and Marine Conservation, Formulate a school curriculum for education on marine life, sustainable lifestyles in Sri Lanka, Empowering women below 35 for ocean science. Conducting Coral Reef Restoration in Southern Sri Lanka. Link project page - https://www.facebook.com/PoseidonArmy

The trained volunteers are enabled to work under 35m below sea level in Sri Lanka. All are PADI certified divers including the women who we have trained under women in ocean science. They take the scuba gear and attend to all activities. The necessary facilities will be taken by our relevant partners including accommodation, providing the dive gear and boats, transport for coastal locations. The permission also handled by the partners. The team dives up to 30m to study the reef, reef mapping, reef checks, and do all scientific work after jumping from the boat. This is the same for underwater clean-up activities as well. The School curriculum was developed through facilitating stakeholder consultations. When you check the selection criteria on the volunteers for training we check on wether they are passionate or not to become a young leader on coastal and marine conservation. The committee will do progress reports when it comes to reporting.

We have been training young people for scuba diving, life-saving, and swimming as a key priority to continue the work in our organization. After that, we have trained young people with experts on climate change & hazards. marine biology, oceanography, ecology. Therefore they have been empowered to continue the work casual basis for us in Southern. Northwestern, Northern, Western coasts of Sri Lanka. The concept of women in ocean science we started to create women led blue economy in the country. currently a group of women are working on setting up the sponge farm in Sri Lanka. the first ocean farm in south asia.

The initiatives were goverenrd through multistakeholder partnerships, These partnerships enabled the volunteers in our organization to carry out work after they received training. All the resources (Physical resources and Financial resources) provided by our partners. Therefore the implementation will continue from our volunteers in all these projects. The government entities also have requested the support of our volunteers in Sri Lanka. The recent express pearl incident had a group of our trained volunteers working on the damage assessment for compensation with the Marine Protection Authority in Sri Lanka.

British Council Active Citizens, SLHT Eco Center, Parley, Shanthi Sustainable Development, Sustainable Ocean Alliance