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Water Reduces Anxiety!

You Can Make a Difference on Giving Tuesday!

Support the Campaign to teach Minority Youth Awareness about holistic emotional wellness and gain self-confidence by learning how to fish.

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OMOL MENTORING c/o OPWWEE: BmoreWet!- Urban Fishing Clinics

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Our society is plagued with many people facing high emotional challenges and stress, due to the loss of a loved one, needing to care for families, pay bills, and maintain employment. Our children see, hear, and feel this stress also. OPWWEE: BmoreWet! program discovered giving families access to water (boating, kayaking, or stand-up paddleboards) detoxified their emotional stress, improved physical bodies and emotional moods, increased socialization, and aided in restful sleep.

Through learning recreational fishing, we can also make an impact by providing food solutions, teaching stewardship/conservation efforts of waterways, and balancing the ecosystem from harmful invasive species that when taken hold, can impact entire ecosystems and cause expensive damage to recreational fisheries. Not only do these non-native fish (Blue Catfish) have the ability to damage our ecosystem, but they also put pressure on native fishes and young spat oysters (water filters), and reduce available habitat for local forage fisheries.

You can help OPWWEE address these accelerating problems by supporting our campaign to raise awareness; of how water can comfort emotional stress, expose community members and youth to the joy of fishing, and provide tools and training to help limit the spread of invasive species across the Chesapeake Bay. This is our Giving Tuesday campaign here contact at https://linktr.ee/Omolmentoring

  • Baltimore's youth are often surrounded by violence and anxiety-inducing stressors. Managing fear, stress, anxiety, and depression - all symptoms of PTSD can feel overwhelming.

In addition, Nature - the environment - and our wonderful waterways can provide a therapeutic approach to emotional healing.

We can offer our youth and adults a safe, relaxing space to gain a sense of self-confidence, learn how to collaborate with others, and creatively problem-solve.

Your donation today will provide a young person access to the water, experience their first catch, conserve local waterways, offer an opportunity to learn important life skills, be exposed to marine workforce development, and give them a sense of peace and healing.

Can they count on you today?


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OPWWEE: BmoreWet!- Urban Fishing Clinics is our year-round after-school/summer program. OPWWEE: BmoreWet! is also designed to increase the minority employment population by 20% in the marine and natural resource industry, over the next ten (10) years.

OPWWEE will accomplish our goal, by providing minority, middle/high school youth access to Maryland waterways through boating, kayaking, fishing, aquaculture, NAMEPA- Adopt A Ship program, hydroponics, and environmental climate conservation efforts to aid in sanitation efforts (such as cleaning up the river, streams, local seashores, beaches, urban farming, and environmental field trips). Our strategic impact is to desensitize 5th-11th grade, underserved minority youth from their everyday PTSD and violence that plague their communities. Youth will de-escalate conflicts by fusing an outdoor living classroom with effective environmental emotional stress management tools.