Two plays, one message
From Becks Hill, our medic Since last writing, another expedition has been and gone, and with the help of our volunteers, STI awareness has stepped up apace: the campaign to create awareness has come a long way. After the first...
“The sea of life”
from Emma Ashley After much preparation and practice (ahem!) by volunteers and staff, Blue Ventures performed a play entitled ‘Mampiasa Kapoty’ to the village of Andavadoaka on Saturday 7th June. The theme of the play was to highlight the importance...
Vao vao from Andavadoaka
by Sage Adams So much is going on here in Andavadoaka, I thought I would write a little about all that is happening. New volunteers Allison, Anne and Jeremiah arrived a few days ago and have begun diving as of...
Fish Rap
by Jen Sanders Now this is a story all about how you will learn fish in Nosy Cao, I’d like to take a minute so sit for a bit, so I can tell you ’bout the Groupers and the Sweetlips....
Update from our Expedition Manager: The Joy of Fish!
From Ruth: I have now been in Andavadoaka working for Blue Ventures for 7 months. I’ve been ‘fish enabled’ for about 5 of those months, and am out there doing fish point outs and tests with volunteers during their training...
Sexual health message spread through drama
It’s a Saturday. Not that the days of the week bear much consequence to our working week here in Andavadoaka; but it is a Saturday, Saturday 10th May. An important meeting is to be held with all parties involved within...
Ode to Expedition 37
You arrived on the camion all tired and weary the hours of bumping making your eyes look all bleary we can’t believe six weeks has passed it really has gone so very fast we hope you’ve had a blast and...
“We Love Our Snappers!”
Another song to help identify different species of snapper… “We Love Our Snappers!” (To be sung to the tune of “Can’t take my eyes off you”) When you are learning your fish, Can’t give your snappers a miss, Continuous dorsal...
Three weeks in
From Sam: I finally arrived at the site at sundown on April 1st, easily the longest transition period I’ve had from one place to another. That said I really, really loved the trip through Madagascar. I had a great time...
The journey to Andavadoaka…
From Sam: On Getting Here After twenty three hours in the air (which itself was preceded by a night in the Guatemala City airport), it would not be hard to have other individuals irk me. But to my pleasure, the...
Expedition 36- veloma in verse!
So let’s talk about expedition 36 You may at times have felt it a bit fixed what with no viz, we’ve all been in a bit of a tizzWhat with all the storms, we’ve all been a bit forlorn. No...
Blue Ventures Carbon Offset Review
Industry watchdog Which? commends Blue Ventures’ Carbon Offset Blue Ventures’ innovative non-profit carbon offsetting programme has been highly rated by companies watchdog Which? in its new report on the UK carbon offsetting industry. The report, which looks at the rapidly-growing...
Blue Ventures Open Day March 2008
This week, Blue Ventures held an Open Day for the village. We had posters, made by the volunteers, about the inter-relationship between the mangroves, seagrass and reefs, what a marine protected area would mean for the fishing stocks (and what...
Village Stays
BV has recently introduced the opportunity of ‘village stays’ for our volunteers. A report from Lucy Ferguson highlights the joys of life in a vezo community: The home stay was hilarious! They picked me up after breakfast last Saturday and...
A day in the life of a BV volunteer
5.30am. I can hear the sound of a bell ringing some distance away. I open one eye and look at my watch. 5.30am. The sun is rising and it’s time to wake up and get kitted up for the 1st...