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Pacific women breaking stereotypes and cultural norms through surfing
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Stephanie Mahuk co-founded Solwota Sista, a program that teaches young women and girls in Vanuatu to surf.
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She is calling to the ocean deity Leimalo, asking her to send good waves.
Working as a lawyer in Vanuatu s capital, Port Vila, Ms Mahuk returns to her village on the coast most afternoons, grabs her surfboard and heads to the beach. There are no words that can describe what surfing is to me … it s freedom, she said.
Ms Mahuk co-founded Solwota Sista, a program that teaches young women and girls in Vanuatu to surf.
A women's surfing movement sweeping across the Pacific is tackling issues of self-worth, confidence, sexism and sexual violence, through a sport often seen as dominated by men.
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