MALIBU—A program designed to teach school children the value of the beaches and ocean will take place on May 15.
Kids Ocean Day is an annual event held by the Malibu Foundation for Environmental Education, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization that attempts to inspire children to take better care of the local environment through recycle and cleanups, according to the event’s website. Over the years the event has been held, over 670,000 school children from across California have participated.
This year’s event will take place at the Dockweiler State Beach in Playa Del Ray. Kids will experience assemblies and lessons created by the Foundation and organized by their school before a massive cleanup of the beach is performed by 3,500 K-12 school children, teachers and adult volunteers. After the cleanup and lessons that teach the value of environmental protection and the hazards of pollution, the crowd will take part in aerial artwork designed by a student from Los Angeles and assembled by aerial artist John Quigley.
Volunteers are needed for the event to assemble the program and to ensure the proper assembly of the various schools that will participate. They will be expected to arrive around 6:00 a.m. on the day of the event for a volunteer training course to take place a few hours before the thousands of students begin to arrive around 9:00 a.m. For more information about the event and how to help, residents can visit www.kidsoceanday.org.
