While I was there with the boys of Santana I got to know that they were granted the chance to participate at the ISA Junior World Surfing Championships to be held in Azores, Portugal later in the year. A few surfers from Portugal who came across the surf scene of Santana – the surf capital of São Tomé – and got to know the local young guns impressed by the pool of talent and stoke decided to raise money and find sponsors to help these guys live their dream and bring them to compete at the World Championships.
You can just imagine how excited these boys were about that. For all of them this was the first time travelling outside the country and of course their first international surfing competition. And that was definitely what they’d dreamed of all their lives.
