Co Founder of Blue Ventures Tom Savage was announced as winner of the Young Social Entrepreneur of the year award in the Edge Upstarts awards 2007. (www.edgeupstarts.org/awards)
The awards, started in 2001, showcase businesses that offer innovative and sustainable solutions to social issues celebrating social enterprises, such as Blue Ventures, that have a socially beneficial purpose.
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The Village of Andavadoaka was honored yesterday at United Nations Headquarters by the UNDP Equator Prize, an international recognition of extraordinary work to diminish poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The Prize serves to further advance the understanding within the global community of the vital link between healthy, biologically diverse environments [...]

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I have just arrived in Andavadoaka as the new field scientist and so far it has proven to be quite a trip.I met up with 2 volunteers in Tana, the capital of Madagascar, before exploring the city which is full of little quirks that give it such character. Particularly the taxi drivers who will actually [...]

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BV staff and vols were invited to a ‘Jus Concert’ in aid of a sports scholarship for local school kids. For the small fee of 1500ariary we were greeted by home made juice (well, orange squash) and plates of nibbles containing peanuts, crispbread stick type things and a wonderfully fresh bread [...]

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