Giving Back

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean for exercise.

One day, the old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.

Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing.

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the boy replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

Adapted from The Star Thrower, Loren Eiseley

Why we give

We only have one planet to live on.

3.5 – 7 billion trees are cut each year

More than half of the world’s forest has been destroyed since 1960[1]

98%[2] of the air we breathe comes from the trees and the ocean

821[3] million people around the world suffer from undernourishment

195[4] million of them are children under 5

175[5] million children don’t get to go to school

Humanity is a shared experience.

What we give

For Each Stone

Plants 10 trees

Do our part to preserve our environment

Gives 10 meals

Keeps children in school
Nourish the body and the mind

Supports Ocean Conservation

1% of our revenue goes to other environmental conservation efforts

“We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.”

Winston Churchill
Citations

[1] International Union for Conservation of Nature, February, 2021. Deforestation and forest degradation. https://www.iucn.org/resources/issues-briefs/deforestation-and-forest-degradation
[2] Save the plankton, breathe freely, 2021, National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankton-breathe-freely/
[3] Can we feed the world and ensure no one goes hungry? United Nations, Oct 2019, https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1048452
[4] Malnutrition, UNICEF, April 2021, https://data.unicef.org/topic/nutrition/malnutrition/
[5] Early Childhood Education, 2021, https://www.unicef.org/education/early-childhood-education