Sheila Funnell is the Research Assistant for Azafady’s Conservation Programme, and over the last few months she has been working with volunteers on the programme and the team of Malagasy guides, on the Biodiversity Research & Monitoring module which has been mainly focussed on herpetology. You can tell from reading that she really is wild [...]

Lomba (Mahalomba Hasoavana) started working for Azafady in July 2001 as a guide on the Pioneer volunteer programme. In 2006 he was made Team Leader of the Pioneer guide team, a job which he did until the summer of 2009. Lomba then coordinated the Ausaid urban health & sanitation project, and now he is the [...]

Whilst one of Project Mampisaina’s main goals is to educate and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, the project ultimately aims to support and encourage young people to make informed decisions about their sexual health and adopt safer sexual health practices. Testing is a significant part of this process as individuals are encouraged to actively take responsibility [...]

One of Azafady’s major projects over the last year, and for the coming year, is Project Mampisaina which aims to educate young people across the urban commune of Fort Dauphin in order to increase awareness about, and to prevent increasing levels of, STI’s and HIV/AIDs, and is funded by the National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund. [...]

My name is Stacey Williams and I am currently volunteering as an English teacher for Azafady in Fort Dauphin which is in the south east region of Madagascar. The demand for English lessons here is outstanding, but unfortunately we only have volunteer English Teachers available until June. In order to keep continuity with the English [...]

One of Azafady’s major projects over the last year, and for the coming year, is Project Mampisaina which aims to educate young people across the urban commune of Fort Dauphin in order to increase awareness about, and to prevent increasing levels of, STI’s and HIV/AIDs, and is funded by the National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund. [...]

Education facilities in the Anosy region of Madagascar are extremely limited. In some communities, children have to walk 20km to reach their nearest school. But even then the facilities are minimal and often inadequate. Azafady’s Project Sekoly is all about addressing this.
Agnenga was one of the many tiny hamlets to be found in Madagascar with [...]

Public latrines are essential to help banish disease and improve health in the urban areas of Madagascar. Much-needed sponsorship has been provided by AusAid’s Direct Aid Program to fund Azafady’s Tany Meva Project in the Amparihy Quartier, to help promote a healthy living environment for the local community. This project will see the erection of [...]

State-provided health facilities in Madagascar are seriously under-funded, and for many rural people, a visit to the nearest Communal health post could mean a 50 km round trip on foot. Nationally, less than 45% of the population have access to a safe drinking water source, locally, it is closer to less than 10% who [...]