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Pioneer Madagascar: Highly Commended in the Best Volunteering Programme category of the 2005 First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards organised by online travel agent responsibletravel.com, in association with The Times,World Travel Market and Geographical Magazine. |
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About Pioneer
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Pioneer Madagascar is the volunteer programme run by Azafady, a registered UK charity (No. 1079121) that has been working on environmental, humanitarian and sustainable development projects in southeast Madagascar since 1995. Madagascar is one of the world's highest conservation priorities and needs your help - your hands as well as your thoughts.
Joining Pioneer Madagascar means that you will be living, working and travelling amongst some of the most beautiful and remote parts of Madagascar. The programme offers the opportunity to work in hands-on situations alongside village communities with an international team of experienced project leaders. Pioneers take part in a range of practical construction work, conservation research and educational activities as required by Azafady's projects, which focus on health and sanitation, sustainable livelihoods and conservation. Pioneer groups contribute to the projects that the Malagasy NGO Azafady runs in the town of Fort Dauphin and in the surrounding rural villages.
You will be actively involved in many aspects of our work, based at our research and development stations scattered around the traditional fishing and farming region of Anosy. This is an invaluable opportunity for you to gain on-the-ground experience that will assist you in pursuing a career in development and/or conservation work, with an organisation that has a proven track record in these fields.
Any active person over the age of 18 may become a Pioneer as all required skills are taught. However, while practical and research experience is welcome, enthusiasm and sensitivity are a must. Successful applicants will learn skills associated with conservation and rural development work. |
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At the cutting edge of integrated conservation and development work on an island where so much is at stake, Pioneer Madagascar offers you a life-changing experience.
Whoever you are, whatever you are doing, taking part in Pioneer Madagascar has something uniquely valuable for you. It could help you choose a new direction in life or to develop an understanding and gain experience within a career path you may already be on. It could be both a personal highlight and a practical stepping stone in a gap year or, for anyone at any time, a great way to go abroad for more than just a holiday.
It will introduce you first-hand to the particular needs of some of the poorest people on earth, while also being a chance to discover some of the treasures of this precious and mysterious ‘eighth continent’. |
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"It has been an amazing experience - brilliant fun, enlightening, testing, rewarding and very memorable. I always felt safe and that any time, any place, if I needed help or advice someone would be there to talk to. I have learnt a lot about how an NGO operates in the 'real world' and the true struggles of both the people running such charities and the people who they are helping."
Cat Phelps, July 2001." |
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| MADAGASCAR
FACTS |
| In 1987, World
Wildlife International declared that the lemurs
are the most gravely endangered group of primates
in the world. |
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