A group from Surfing The Nations will be heading out to Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh today acting as ambassadors of surf. When STN first arrived in Bangladesh in 2001, the word ‘surf’ and subsequently ‘surfboard’ did not exist. Now there are 70 Bengali surf boys and girls who have caught the stoke.
Held captive and taught to fear the ocean by a strict Islamic government, a majority of the people don’t know how to swim. Yet their love for surfing takes them into the water anyway, into an experience they never imagined possible. STN will hold their fifth annual Aloha Surf Classic surf contest.
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Your article about Wahiawa really did a disservice to all the good people who live in this great little town. Where do you come off calling us a seedy pit stop??? Maybe you should have interviewed more people before printing such a piece of crap. Where are your journalistic standards? Thanks a lot for the black eye you gave our town.
I’m sorry you feel that way. The article was not meant to insult. To any outsider looking in, as well as to all that were interviewed for this article, there are obvious (and not so obvious) problems (namely homelessness, poverty and drug-abuse) that abound within the Wahiawā area. Instead of turning a blind eye to these problems, pretending problems don’t exist, organizations like Surfing The Nations, the Wahiawā Community board and the Wahiawā Community Governance Coalition, all of whom were represented in this article, all see the need for change and revitalization and are actively doing things to ensure a better, safer community. What are you doing?