Design
If You Can't Bring the Beach to the City, Bring the City to the Beach
Kids from one of San Francisco's toughest neighborhoods find joy in the surf.
When you’re growing up in the inner city, in a place where the sound of gunshots is not uncommon, the natural world can seem very far away. For a group of kids in the rough and isolated Sunnydale neighborhood of San Francisco, the beaches of Marin County, just a few miles over the Golden Gate Bridge, might as well be on another planet.
But a group of surfers calling themselves Ripple Effect has decided to reach out across the divide.