This project is, in first place, for young people experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties. These difficulties may be existing for various reasons and so, these young people benefit from a time away from the daily pressures of their lives in a warm, calm and creative environment where they can find new ways of relating with themselves and the realities around them.
Wave by Wave is a Portuguese association that carries out a surf-based therapeutic intervention called surftherapy, designed and executed by mental health experts and surf instructors, it aims to promote stress management, social interactionism, a healthy physical and psychological activity for children victimized by traumatizing experiences.