About Ocean Action Resource Center

Vision / Mission / Board of Directors

Vision

ORC is a non-profit organization that envisions Filipino coastal communities transform themselves into active, educated stewards of their marine environment through youth education and public awareness.

Mission

ORC’s mission is to provide, facilitate, and support marine-oriented environmental education for Filipino youth and to raise environmental awareness in Philippine coastal communities.

Utilizing both formal and non-formal educational settings and approaches, it seeks to do the following:

1) Make marine science and conservation simple, culturally significant, and easily transmissible for young members of the community to understand, appreciate, and pass on to parents, families, and the rest of the community

2) Harness and maximize the youth’s role, influence, and dynamism in forming unique collaborations, making innovative solutions, drawing on untapped resources in the effort to promote and protect marine life

3) Encourage interest and appreciation among community members for their own immediate marine resources as a way to instill a sense of ownership and to make learning fun, experiential and tangible

4) Strengthen and expand the role of schools and educators in marine education and conservation.