From Swaddling to Surfing; How Sri Lankan Women Are Changing Their Destiny

Update: 2019-08-14

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Amanda Prifti joins us from Boston as she’s preparing for her next season with Sea Sisters in Weligama, Sri Lanka. She and her co-pilot Martina founded this non-profit to provide swim and surf programs for Sri Lankan girls as a tool to shift the collective mindset around gender roles in this country, and press for equal opportunities. In a country where women traditionally stay home to raise children, cook and clean, the tide is slowly changing for the women of Sri Lanka, and the look on their faces say they’re stoked!

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