Project Overview

TPM (All to the Sea) is an NGO that emerged as a feminist collective in 2016 in the community of the Bay of Maracaípe-PE, Brazil. Since then, it has been contributing to the personal and social development of children, adolescents and women, through social and educational activities, having surfing at the main core. Currently TPM attends about 70 children from 7 to 17 years old with a team of 8 powerful women and it has several projects. You can read more about here.

Why

Maracaípe is one of the main routes for surf competitions in the Northeast region of Brazil and it has a beautiful landscape that attracts tourism and culture around the surf scene, which makes a good oportunity to proliferate Gnars culture thought Include Surf TPM's project. Include Surf has the mission to give children in need the oportunity to stay away from drug traffic by keeping them entertained with surf. It's also a place where they can eat and learn how to read and write in Portuguese, Spanish and English. However most of these children are illiterate and ended up having to work on the street to bring food to their family. Nevertheless surf is a strong social transformer, providing notions of citizenship to complement school studies and work oportunities.

Unfortunately TPM is going through the toughest financial crisis ever and it might close next year if they don’t find funds in time. Therefore we belive that Gnars has a huge fit with the project and can help some of TPM’s monthly cost. This sponsorship will allow these children to have fun Nounifing TPM, to surf and to learn all about web3 and it's potential with nfts, games and much more. In addition, to better these childrens lifes, nounifing TPM will attract people and companies from Maracaípe and all around Brazil that are interested in helping the NGO.

How

Surfguru and Play4Change DAO are going to be key partners to proliferate Gnars and educate TPM about web3.

Surfguru is the largest wave forecast website of Brazil, it has the largest surfing community of Brazil with 300k passionate users and 2.5M visits per month. Surfguru is also involved in the web3 with the influence of it's business partners Luiz Hadad Gnars athlete and @marinioac that just got 0.5eth from Lil Sisters and 0.5eth from Nouns BR to sponsor TPM's children. Recently, SG launched DROP, a social currency to motivate and reward beach clean ups and created the Surfhive Community. Since 2020, SG gives 10% of member's income to help save the oceans. Since 2021, SG have been helping fund some of TPM's activities and supplies, such as workshops on how to repair surfboards, purchasing lycra to protect from UV light, purchasing chocolate for Easter, purchasing presents for Christmas, providing material for beach clean-ups and much more.

Here is a video about Surfguru's 2021 impact report.

Surfguru will create educational content about Gnars, Lil Nouns, Nouns BR and Nouns, and also will make content about the web3 educational process at TPM and will continue to spread TPM nounified content though it's midia.

We will also count with the support of Play4change DAO to teach about web3, NFT, games, Nouns DAO and the SubDAOs to TPM’s children and Educators. Play4Change is an ImpactDAO, that has the mission to create positive impact in the world. Impact DAOs are essentially organizations created to make an impact on issues where society already suffers great losses such as education, health, environment, etc. They aim to drive shared interests, public goods and common needs.

With that in mind, Play4Change will educate 5 multipliers from TPM:

• The basics of web3, exchange, wallet, nft, discord and twitter.
• What is a DAO, subDAOs and CC0. Especially Nouns, Gnars, Lil Nouns, Nouns BR and Lil Sisters.
• How to make money playing games in the blockchain (play2earn games)
• How to post articles on Surfhive Community to have an alternative web3 income
• How to transform Nounified drawings and photos into NFTs

This education process will guarantee the Nouns proliferation to be continued in TPM.

Gnarly action

Budget

We already got 0.5eth from Lil Sisters and 0.5eth from Nouns BR. If we get 2.5eth from Gnars, we will be able to afford the following:

1.75 Eth for TPM

• Fund part of TPM’s monthly cost for 3 months (rent, bills, payrolls, food, educational supplies, surf supplies and transportation)
• Produce all sorts of nounish noogles artwork (stickers, arts and crafts) with TPM’s children to promote Gnars, Lil Sister, Lil Nouns and Nouns BR to the Brazilian community though TPM's and Surfguru's media.
• Organize Play4change workshops for TPM’s children and educators

0.5 Eth for @marinioac

• Manage the funding and the whole project: the content making, the workshops production, the stickers production, artworks production, and the media distribution plan on TPM's and Surfguru's medias, such as Instagram, SG website and twitter.
• Connect TPM's coordinators, educators and children with web3, twitter spaces, discord, proposals, wallet, trade, NFT, Gnars, Lil Nouns, Lil Sisters, Nouns BR and Play4Change.

0.25 Eth for Surfguru

• Media distribution to +300k users with banners, newsletters, articles and to +30k instagram followers with reels, stories and live with marinioac and Nuala Costa about the experience to be funded by Gnars, Lil Sisters and Nouns BR. All in Portuguese.

Timeframe (3 months)

1st Month - Education and kick off:

• Week 1 - Plan the Nounification of TPM and the education of web3 with TPM, @marinioac and Play4Change
• Week 2 - Fund part of TPM monthly cost, such as bills and educational supplies
• Week 2 - Make Noggle stickers
• Week 3 and 4 - Organize a workshop with Play4change for 5 multipliers from TPM about web3, NFT, Nouns, Gnars, Lil Nouns, Lil Sisters and Nouns BR (action continues)

Month 2 to 3, Deep Nounification:

• Make a lot of gnartwork with the children, such as drawings, arts and crafts with paper and plastic residues to make the noggles during the TPM classes to ware them during the surf activities.

• Make a big noggle on the sand with sand and another one with surfboars to shoot from above with a drone

• Apply the noggles stickers on surfboards, around the TPM's house and around Maracaípe's town.

• Photos and video making of all the activities to post on social medias

Proliferation strategy:

• Week 1 and 2 - Launch the project to Nounify TPM to the surf community with an article, social media post on instagram and twitter and a newsletter about the whole project to SG users base.

Surfguru Newsletter

• Week 3 and 4 - Coverage on social media of the educational process and artwork making with reels and stories. Here is an example of reels.

• Week 5 - Reels and an article about the results of the educational process. Here is an example of article.

• Month 2 to 3 - Continue to promote gnarly nounish media (photos, gifs and vídeos) on TPM and Surfguru’s networks, websites and social medias

Further Information

TPM promotes:

• Social-educative accompaniment
• Democratization of surf
• New perspectives of life

Nuala Costa idealizer of TPM

Nuala started her surfing career at the age of 16 in Maracaípe through a social project. She was the first woman to professionally represent the state of Pernambuco in national and international surf championships. She had her surfing career invisibilized, due to racism and class difficulties, unfortunately present in the sport. She lived in Europe for 15 years and when returned found a precarious scenario in the community. Thus, she decided to start a project of surf inclusion, and founded TPM - Todas para o Mar (All to the Sea).

Nuala Costa

TPM’s projects and actions

• Include Surf TPM: Since 2016, the project Include Surf from TPM is using surf as a democratization and a social transformation for children in need.
• Surf Day: TPM surfing experience modalities, since 2017 that challenges women, of any age, to new experiences.
• Maraca Surf Festival: Annual women's surf competition event, featuring several TPM surfing experience modalities, since 2017.
• TPM Mangue Woman Project & Suape Forum: Capacity-building for the political and productive organization of fisherwomen, affected by the Suape Industrial Port Complex. Since 2021.
• We all can menstruate: Project started in 2021 in favor of menstrual dignity.
• Covid-19 campaign: Social articulation during the period of social isolation. We distribute more than 1500 food packs, as well as hygiene products, every month 2020-2021 to 250 families in the community.
• Movie production: Extension project of Include Surf TPM, where the students created and produced a short film.
• Surfboard repair workshop: Extension of the Include Surf TPM project, its objective is to teach how to do maintenance and repairs on surfboards.
• Include-you TPM: Artivist festival for the students of Inclua Surf TPM. It aims to introduce young people to dialogues and socio-educational and artistic experiences.

Social realities

• Tourism expansion without planning
• Social problems: poverty, unemployment, drugs, prostitution, school dropouts.
• Environmental problems.
• The absence of a sociocultural space results in drug abuse, causing a considerable increase in social problems.
• Illiteracy

More about TPM

TPM ONG's children

TPM in the media:

Nuala Costa breaks barriers against racism in women's surfing - Mídia Ninja

Courage is a feminine noun and they can prove it! | Women's Tide | OFF Channel

Activist, resilient and empowered: Nuala Costa | Janaínas: Goddesses of the Sea | OFF Channel

Surfing and the LGBTQIA+ Community | Interview with Nuala Costa | OFF Channel

Natural paradise on the outskirts of Pernambuco! | Verão de Boa | OFF Channel

Recife: Sorority in Women's Surfing | Marias Tide | OFF Channel

Todos Para o Mar (All to the Sea) - project for inclusion through surf in Maracaípe | Marco Zero Conteúdo

Surfing changes the lives of children and women in Maracaípe | Marco Zero Conteúdo

Thank you all for the opportunity :)