Sandals Foundation partners with interCaribbean Airways for ICCD 2024  

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands – October 25, 2024 – With a team of more than 100 volunteers gathered on the Grace Bay beach for International Coastal Clean-up Day 2024, more than six hundred pounds of waste was collected from our coastline. Sandals Foundation, Beaches Turks and Caicos and interCaribbean Airways teamed up to breathe fresh air into the island’s coastline.

Environmental Projects Manager at the Sandals Foundation, Georgia Scarlett shared, “while celebrating International Coastal Clean-up Day is a major mission for the Sandals Foundation, the partnership with Beaches Turks and Caicos Earth Guardians and interCaribbean is representative of the power of partnership and a common mission to strengthen conservation efforts.”

“Together we were able to join resources and our efforts in ridding our coastlines of waste that can create harm to our marine life. This year our Sandals Foundation ambassadors executed clean-ups across all nine islands in which we operate. I am also delighted by our partnership with interCaribbean which also executed activities in Barbados as well as here in Turks and Caicos Islands,” Scarlett shared.

Speaking to the impact of the partnership, interCaribbean CEO Trevor Sadler shared, “the Sandals Foundation’s major purposes of covering the community, education and the environment helped us to make this partnership more meaningful. The International Coastal Clean-up day allowed both entities to join hands and hearts in protecting the environment. The volunteers were enthused to give back to the environment as they know the value of providing a safe space for marine life and for our tourism product.”    Managing Director of Beaches

Turks and Caicos, James McAnally noted, “the success of this initiative is helping to bolster partnerships between industry stakeholders as well as training the younger generations to appreciate the value of protecting the environment. We had a number of our team members’ children who are aware of benefits of volunteering and keeping our shoreline and oceans clean.

Cliffande Mano from the Cost Control department who was one of the volunteer at the event shared her experience at the event. “The Grace Bay beach is rated as one of the best in the world. Being able to help in providing the support needed to keep our shoreline and our ocean clean was a good experience. I love to go to the beach. Now I am more conscious of the role that all of us here in the Caribbean need do to protect our environment,” Mano noted.

Through this annual event, the International Ocean Conservancy hopes to spread awareness and encourage everyone to stop trash at the source, a mission the Sandals Foundation fully supports.