Outstanding services to sail training awarded to South Africa’s new generation of sailors

Bringing international sail training opportunities to disadvantaged

young people in South Africa has won the South African Sail Training for Life Skills

Association (SASLA) the prestigious Sultan

Qaboos Sailing Trophy 2015.

A gift

from His Majesty the Sultan of Oman, the Sultan Qaboos Sailing Trophy was given to Sail Training International to annually award

an individual, vessel operator or sail training organisation for outstanding

services to young people in sail training.

See more pictures from the ceremony here

About SASLA:

South Africa’ voice of youth development through sail training

Nine

years ago Sail Training International approached two Cape Town-based non-profit

organisations, Cape Windjammers Education Trust and Izivunguvungu Foundation

for Youth to establish the foundations for a national Sail Training

organisation in South Africa. Their vision was to target disadvantaged

communities and be South Africa’ voice of youth development through sail

training.

After

much hard work, the South African Sail training for Life-skills Ass