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The following newspaper article is reprinted from the 'Maidenhead Advertiser' (17 July 2008). 'Donald Duck' (aka Mick Varley), with his colleagues 'Tigger' (aka Eleanor) and Jenny sold over £600 worth of raffle tickets during the party for prizes donated by the local community. Councillor Suzanne Brown chaired the street committee that organised the event and invited the Marlow Town Mayor to open it. Laura & Anthony Brondbjerg raised nearly £400 by auctioning donated items. All food and entertainment was donated by street residents, except for the drinks and the roast meat. Participants bought tickets at £25 each for adults (£15 for seniors and £10 for children). Ticket printing and the band were kindly provided and donated by Adam Budd. Jon Bell donated his time and equipment as the DJ and provided two raffle prizes worth £500 each from the Honda garage where he works. AwF Director Sophie Varley and her husband Mick Varley organised most everything else - putting up flags and tents, persuading their friends (including Adam, Jon and Laura) to help, selling entry and raffle tickets, insuring the event, buying and transporting the drinks, tables, and much much more....... Many others contributed too but cannot all be named. All the profits from the street party came to AwF (UK). AwF (UK) is very grateful indeed to the organisers, as always......   Read More...
AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha kindly provided the following news about the new AwF-supported hatchery in Tripura on 17 July 2008......   Read More...
The following message was received in England to be given to the people attending an AwF fund-raising event in Marlow...........   Read More...
We are pleased to announce further support for project activities in Tripura, India.......   Read More...
Our Founder Michael New has stepped down as a Director of AwF but remains active as Chairman of AwF (UK)........   Read More...
AwF welcomes proposals for assistance to help poor people in developing countries rear fish for food.......   Read More...
Sophie and Mick Varley are busy raising funds for AwF again. For the fourth year running a public house (The Prince of Wales) at the end of their road is entering a sponsored dragon boat crew in the Marlow Town Regatta on 15 June 2008. Sponsored crews raised the equivalent of US$2,490 for AwF at this event in 2005, US$2,580 in 2006 and US$4,105 in 2007.   
The residents of one of Marlow's streets are planning their third annual street party in aid of AwF.   Read More...
The Technical Advisory Group of AwF has been busy considering a wide range of new proposals that have been submitted for funding. At the moment, projects in Cameroon and India are under consideration. More news when available........   
AwF activities will be reported during a WAS conference in Busan on 22 May 2008, so please attend if you are interested in our work......   Read More...
AwF is very grateful to those responsible for providing free advertisements for our work.......   Read More...
AwF is delighted that friends of AwF are currently supporting us both directly and by organising events in France and the USA to generate funds for our activities in developing countries. We are most grateful to them.......   Read More...
Someone has been donating prizewinnings to AwF......   Read More...
We are pleased to report that one of our Directors has provided further services in Cambodia, this time as an AwF volunteer. We also congratulate him on the receipt of a Cambodian award for his Oxfam work in that country........   Read More...
Marlow plans to support AwF for the fourth year running....   Read More...
Please contact the following number if you would like a copy of the latest AwF newsletter.....   Read More...
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AwF is pleased to announce that, after careful consideration by its Technical Advisory Group, a two-year new project in Nepal has been approved. This is a collaborative project with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Further details will be posted later.   
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More funds were kindly donated for AwF during an event in Bangkok.....   Read More...
A new agreement between WAS and AwF comes into force on 1 January 2008   Read More...
Happy 2008   Read More...
Our Technical Advisory Committee is considering project proposals received from Ghana, the Lebanon, Nepal and Uganda.   
Another of the AwF Directors has recently been honoured..........   Read More...
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AwF apologises for technical problems which caused our website to fail during the first week of November 2007 and thanks WAS for hosting the site while remedies were sought. We are confident that this problem will not occur again.   
Previous and current activities in Africa have been in the East - Kenya and Malawi. We are glad to hear from our Chairman, Kevin Fitzsimmons, of some initial activities in two West African countries - Ghana and Liberia...........   Read More...
We are very pleased to receive the following update from our Chairman on AwF activities in the tsunami devasted areas of Aceh....... [Kevin's report contained some excellent photographs but, due to technical difficulties most could not be inserted yet. The others will be added to this news item later]........   Read More...
Sattya Roy has sent us many pictures of the flooding around one of our project sites (Kurigram District) in Bangladesh.......   Read More...
We are pleased to receive the latest quarterly progress report from Sattya Roy [we are sorry thast we could not include the photos embedded in his report, for technical reasons] but worried about the effect of severe flooding, not only on our project but mostly on the people who live in the area. Sattya’s cover note says that the heavy rain caused floods in many parts of countryside. The affected people took shelter on dikes/embankments and in schools. The flood damaged houses and crop fields and people were passing their days in serious anxieties. When he visited the project many ponds and fields had been submerged but the project ponds were not yet affected. Some separate photos on the local flooding are contained in a companion news story on this website.   Read More...
A garden party was held in the beautiful village of Hambleden (England).......   Read More...
We are pleased to receive the second quarterly report from Joseph Nagoli about our project in Malawi and to know that progress is good. Please note that the very simple and useful illustrated booklet on aquaculture production referred to in the report as 'Appendix 3' was too long to post on this website; however, it can be obtained from WorldFish Center Malawi (J.Nagoli@CGIAR.ORG).   Read More...
The following message was sent by the AwF Bishramganj project in Agartala, Tripura (north-east India) to the residents of a street in Marlow, to be read out during a street party (see a separate news item entitled ANOTHER EVENT IN MARLOW RAISES RECORD AMOUNT FOR AwF) raising funds for the work of AwF. The residents of South Place Marlow were very happy with this news and pleased that they are so closely identified with AwF's work; they all sent their best wishes to Bishramganj for continued success.   Read More...
This report has been kindly received from Anwara Begum Shelly and records the result of this one-year project. We are grateful to M.C. Nandeesha for his involvement in the project.   Read More...
We are delighted to report that the residents of a street in England have raised a record sum for the work of AwF.........   Read More...
For the third year running, Mick and Sophie Varley and their friends entered a crew into the Marlow Town Regatta Dragon Boat Race...........   Read More...
Aquaculture without Frontiers was originally registered in both the USA and the UK under the same name but with different directors. Recently, AwF in the UK has been renamed to prevent confusion between the two........   Read More...
AwF was proud to have played a minor role in the production of a very useful simple aquafeeds manual for Papua New Guinea (one of our Directors, Geoff Allan, was its co-author). Now we are helping to extend its use into Thailand   Read More...
The following story has been received from AwF Director M.C. Nandeesha. AwF is very grateful to him and his AwF co-volunteers and was pleased to join with them in making the purchase of this motorbike possible. We wish the Centre many years of safe driving on project activities. There are two lessons to be learnt from this story: - the volunteers were very generous and small NGOs can react to requests very quickly   Read More...
AwF has recently been able to assist a fisheries/aquaculture library in the tsunami-devasated area of Aceh, Indonesia. Michael New has shipped scientific journals and books from his own collection to Jakarta, including a thirty-year run of the journal ‘Aquaculture’ [from Volume 1(1) onwards (1972-1992)], and long runs of the journals ‘Aquaculture Research’ (1995-2006) and ‘Aquaculture Nutrition’ (1995-2005). The Indonesian Directorate-General for Aquaculture is kindly taking care of the transhipment of these donated materials from Jakarta to Aceh. We in AwF hope that they will be a small but useful contribution to the progress of sustainable aquaculture in Aceh........   Read More...
Although the AwF-VOSD cage culture project is completed, VOSD is continuing this initiative into its second year, using their own resources, as shown in the following notes from Tamanna Khatun. A second proposal for AwF support for the aquaculture work of VOSD is currently being considered by the AwF Technical Advisory Group.   Read More...
We are delighted to read the following news about the formation of a sister organization in Spain, as provided by Daniel Montero Vitores. Good luck AsF (España) - we look forward to reading more as you progress!   Read More...
the following report has been received from Sattya Roy......   Read More...
The AwF-Bishramganj project (phase 2) is heavily involved in the integration of fish culture with other food producing activities for poor people in the tribal areas in North-East India, as this report from Drs Santhosh and Sankaran shows.....   Read More...
We are pleased to report that the AwF-WFC project is going well, as shown in the following report from Joseph Nagoli.....   Read More...
Recently, Michael New gave a presentation on AwF to masters students at the Universitat Politèchnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, España at the invitiation of EAS Past-President Rosa Flos. His presentation evinced considerable interest in our work and provided an opportunity to publicise the establishment of our sister organization, Acuicultura sin Fronteras (España). While in Barcelona, Michael New also spoke about his life as an aquaculturist at the AULA European School, whose pupils also showed enthusiasm about the activities of AwF.   
Residents of the small town of Marlow in England and their friends have previously raised significant funds for the work of AwF. Now they are planning more....   Read More...
News of another local fund raising activity have been received...........   Read More...
We are pleased to hear that Bangladesh Government approval for the release of AwF funds has been obtained and the project has commenced. The following news has been received.........   Read More...
We are pleased to report that our first project in Malawi has commenced and is being enthusiastically welcomed by the participants. The following report has come in from Joseph Nagoli..........   Read More...
We are pleased to publish the final report on this project, which we have received from Tamanna Khatun. [Please note that some annexes and the photographs have not been posted onto our website but are available in the original printed document]   Read More...
Several changes were made at a board meeting of AwF in San Antonio on 27 February 2007......   Read More...
In February 2007, AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha provided this report on progress in our project in India........   Read More...
A sister organization to AwF is being formed in Mexico. It's logo is shown below. Further details can be obtained from Salvador Meza Salvador Meza [smeza0@panoramaacuicola.com]   Read More...
Several papers on AwF activities are being presented during an AwF-organized NGO session at the World Aquaculture meeting in San Antonio, Texas in late February 2007......   Read More...
We are grateful to Tamanna Khatun for sending us two interesting case studies from this project...............   Read More...
The following is a summary of a feed manufacturing worksop held in Papua New Guinea. AwF is proud to have been a minor contributor to this event, which was coordinated from Australia by AwF Trustee and Volunteer Geoff Allan.....   Read More...
AwF is pleased to have been involved in an aquaculture nutrition master class in Bangkok during the summer of 2006. This is one of a series of events (see also our story about the feeds workshop in Papua New Guinea in December 2006) that culminate in one of the two workshops that AwF is conducting with several partners in Surin Thailand in February 2007 in its joint project with World Vision Thailand. All of these events are master-minded by AwF Trustee and Volunteer Geoff Allan.   Read More...
Preparing fish feed and obtaining quality fish fingerlings are essential components of succesful small-scale aquaculture. In our efforts to assist World Vision to expand their excellent work in the poor northeast part of Thailand, AwF is providing resources for these two workshops in Surin. There are 60 participants coming to Surin for these AwF-World Vision workshops and they fall into three categories: World Vision staff who will expand the programme into other areas, fish farmers involved in World Vision activities, and people with specific expertise in feed manufacture or hatcheries. AwF Volunteers Geoff Allan (Australia), Peter Edwards (Thailand) and Md. Akhteruzzaman (Bangladesh) are heavily involved in this work and we wish them and the workshop participants every success. We also hope that these activities will assist World Vision to expand their successful aquaculture activities in Thailand........   Read More...
During the visit of two AwF Volunteers - M.C. Nandeesha and Josy Joseph from the AwF-Bishramganj project in India - they were able to learn from our projects in Bangladesh and to contribute knowledge from their own experience. We are very pleased to receive this visit report about the AwF-CARITAS project from M.C. Nandeesha........   Read More...
The Kitchen Table Charities Trust [www.kitchentablecharities.org] which, as its name suggests, specifically supports small charities, has kindly provided a grant to AwF to complete the funding of our new project in Malawi. This complements earlier funding for this project from Skretting Aquaculture Research Center and Intervet International. News about the start-up of this project has already been posted on this website .......   Read More...
AwF is assisting the WorldFish Center in the Mavwere Area of Mchinji District in Malawi....   Read More...
We were delighted to receive the following report from AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha, who, with Josy Joseph - also from the AwF-Bishramganj project - recently visited our current projects in Bangladesh, both to provide advice and to facilitate the cross-transfer of technology between AwF projects in India and Bangladesh.   Read More...
New AwF activity in Bangladesh....   Read More...
AwF (USA) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors......   Read More...
Very occasionally, AwF sends out a newsletter to our friends......   Read More...
A pocket manual on pond culture has resulted in a useful donation for AwF.......   Read More...
Many of you will have seen advertisements designed to raise funds for AwF in the aquaculture press. These have cost us nothing, due to the generosity of various people and publishers, to whom we are most grateful.......   Read More...
We are pleased that negotiations for our first major project in Africa (we had a small earlier student input in Kenya, funded by Nutreco and administered by Wageningen Agricultural University) are proceeding well. This time we will be collaborating with the WorldFish Center-Malawi. Watch this space!   
Intervet picked AwF as one of the organizations to support during Christmas 2006. The following is an excerpt from a letter from Peter Oostenbach (Food Chain Relations Office, Intervet International bv) to us.....   Read More...
Substantial support has been received from this Nutreco company........   Read More...
We have received a message from Jared Polis of Colorado, USA, informing us that he is making a substantial grant to AwF......   Read More...
The trustees of AwF (UK) are pleased to announce that Dr. Scott Peddie has been appointed a new trustee of our organisation.....   Read More...
AwF has recently had a small participation in Papua New Guinea (PNG)......   Read More...
The following details of our work with World Vision in Thailand have been supplied by AwF Director Geoff Allan.......   Read More...
The following is excerpted from the report of the Chairman's report, which was presented at the AGM of AwF (UK) held on 26 November 2006.......   Read More...
For the third year running (2005 Bali; 2006 Firenze) AwF is has organised a session in the annual WAS conference. In 2007 the WAS meeting will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA (26 February - 2 March 2007). The AwF NGO session will be on 28 February. Mark your calendars now to attend Aquaculture 2007........   Read More...
The following report has been received from AwF Director Geoff Allan..............   Read More...
23 October 2006 Dear Michael, Eid Greetings from VOSD! We are very pleased to inform you that our first project book (Easy Methods for Fish Culture in Small Cages) is ready. We have planned to arrange a opening ceremony of the book by AwF Volunteer Dr. M.C. Nandeesha at Nalcity in the presence of stakeholders on 29 October 2006. We have invited the presence of Nalcity's UFO (Upzilla Fisheries Officer) to attend the ceremony. We will distribute the book among the stakeholders on that day. We shall also distribute it to Government offices and various fisheries organisations. We would like to send a copy for you with Dr. Nandeesha; although it is in Bangla I think you can understand at least something from its pictures. Many thanks to AwF on behalf of VOSD for funding the publication of the book. Tamanna Khatun   
The following document has kindly been translated into Spanish by AwF Volunteer Dallas Alston.................   Read More...
INADERU is coordinating the possibility to develop an aquaculture project with the municipality and the small farmers of a high Andean area (Agallpampa - La Libertad). At the moment both government and various institutions are strongly motivated to develop this type of project in these areas as a means of fighting poverty. AwF Volunteer Dallas Alston is providing technical advice to Eduardo Lezama, the INADERU Coordinator of Projects.   
A report on the work conducted by AwF Student Volunteer Cyrus Mageria and others in 2006 in the Lake Naivasha area of Kenya has been received. The Executive Summary of this report (and a reference to the complete report) has been provided below....... AwF involvement in this work was made possible by a grant for student volunteers from the European Aquaculture Society (EAS). AwF would welcome ideas for further field work involving students in European universities, as more funding has kindly been made available by EAS for this purpose.   Read More...
Tamanna Khatun has sent us photos of two of the benificiaries of this project, showing tilapia after 11 weeks of rearing.......   Read More...
AwF is pleased to hear that the grant of US$ 1,000, which was provided by the WAS Latin American & Caribbean Chapter (WAS-LACC)for tsunami relief, has recently been utilized in Kerala, India. The following report of the distribution of the grant has kindly been provided by Dr. C.M. Nair and a short slide show of the ceremonies is available on request.........   Read More...
AwF volunteers are providing technical assistance to the Friends of Burkina Trust, which is aiming to set up a small catfish rearing project, similar to the 'Chari in the Bari' project in Bangladesh.   
We are grateful to Dr. Anwara Begum Shelly for sending us the following report of the AwF-Caritas project, dated 11 September 2006 ............   Read More...
AwF has just received some unfortunate news from Endhay Kusnendar about our YSI/WAS-supported seaweed project in Aceh, Indonesia.......   Read More...
These are the latest pictures from the AwF-Bishramganj project, kindly sent in my AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha.........   Read More...
The following appeal has been issued by AwF (USA).....   Read More...
The following press release has been issued by AwF (USA).......   Read More...
The Don Bosco Center of St. Xavier's (near Bishramganj Township, in Agartala, Tripura, India) was started in 1999. St. Xavier's is our partner in working for the alleviation of the poverty of the tribal families of this remote area. Don Bosco is a vocational training center with special emphasis on integrated farming. AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha thought that you might like to see some photographs of its integrated farming training activities - livestock and crop production. AwF works in close harmony (integration) with these activities.....   Read More...
A new project, funded by YSI Inc through the WAS Tsunami Relief Fund, has been agreed. Details can be found by clicking 'Projects' on the navigation panel of this website, followed by 'INDONESIA - AwF RELIEF PROJECTS' and looking for Aceh Project # 6.........   
In July 2006 Anwara Begum Shelly provided news of our joint project with Caritas in Bangladesh.........   Read More...
Like the sponsored dragon boat racing in 2005 and 2006 (in the same small town), the following news item shows just how willing the ordinary public is to support our work if a 'fun' event is organised. If only other friends of AwF would organise similar activities around the world, we would be able to help poor people to grow fish to feed their families in developing countries so much more. 'South Place Marlow Residents' challenge you to beat their AwF fund-raising efforts...............!   Read More...
Tamanna Khatun has written from Bangladesh to say that fish are growing well in the cages in both project villages. She also sent three new photos......   Read More...
Buying your individual or corporate Christmas cards through this card company can benefit AwF. Every card you buy results in a 20p (~ US$0.36) donation from the card company for AwF.........   Read More...
More photos of activities have been received from Tamanna Khatun.......   Read More...
Inspired by the work of AwF, a group of like-minded individuals in Spain are forming Acuicultura sin Fronteras (AsF). We in AwF have signed a MoU with AsF and wish them every success......   Read More...
This MoU is rather ancient news, having been signed in Bali in 2005. However, it has not been posted on our website before and is now copied here as a token of the mutual friendship between Aquaculture without Frontiers and the World Aquaculture Society....   Read More...
The following report about the third tsunami project supported by AwF-WAS-YSI in Aceh, Indonesia has been received. We are grateful to Endhay Kusnendar for this news and for the photographs that he sent........   Read More...
You can raise money for AwF just by searching the web!   Read More...
Two dragon boat crews raced to raise funds for AwF this year.......   Read More...
Several substantial donations were gratefully received during the EAS-WAS conference AQUA 2006 in Firenze in May.   Read More...
We were pleased to receive the following training report and photographs from Tamanna Khatun (Director Fisheries VOSD) on 24 May...   Read More...
We are delighted to add another organisation to our links section, namely the National Shellfisheries Association.   Read More...
The following photograph was taken in the EAS booth at AQUA 2006 in Firenze, Italia. It shows Denis Lacroix (left), the organizer of the art exposition in Montpellier (see separate story on this website) with Michael New.   Read More...
Denis Lacroix (AwF Foundation Member) most kindly organised an exhibition of professional and amateur art in a chateau in Montpellier, France in May to raise funds for AwF. We wish to thank him most sincerely for his initiative; our gratitude goes also to his friends and colleagues for their enthusiasm and support for AwF. The full amount raised will be reported on this website in due course. Meanwhile we are pleased to provide the following report of the event, together with some photographs sent in by Denis.......   Read More...
As we close the first phase of our project in Tripura and move into the second we have received the following photographs from AwF Volunteer M.C. Nandeesha. The pictures and their captions tell their own story........   Read More...
Cyrus Mageria, a postgraduate student at the University of Wageningen, has been co-funded by Nutreco and AwF to conduct a study in Kenya to explore the potential for creating a hatchery to supply fish fry for aquaculture and restocking purposes in the Lake Naivasha area......   Read More...
AwF is very grateful to a group of EAS students (led by Lena Trenovszki from Hungary), who raised Euro 350 for AwF at the recent joint EAS-WAS conference & exhibition 'AQUA 2006' in Firenze, Italy. The money was raised using some AwF wristbands that had been made by a group of students from the USA (see earlier story on this website entitled 'THANKS TO THE USAS SIUC STUDENT SUB-UNIT!'). We are truly grateful to all these young AwF enthusiasts, as well as to EAS Executive Director Alistair Lane for suggesting the involvement of the students. Naturally, we are also most grateful to those who donated to AwF; their names will appear on the donors list when this is next updated.   
We are pleased to announce that the AwF Board has approved the expansion of our work in Tripura, India (click 'Projects' and AwF-ST XAVIER'S BISHRAMGANJ PROJECT in the navigation panel of this website for details). We wish our collaborators every success with their work and we hope that our beneficiaries will truly be helped by our efforts to improve their living conditions. News about this and the work of Phase 1 will be posted from time to time.   Read More...
At a meeting of the trustees of AwF (UK) that was held in Firenze on 10 May 2006, Sophie Varley was elected a new trustee. Sophie has been, and continues to be, a major fund-raiser for AwF. Welcome to the board!   
Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons, a Past-President of the World Aquaculture Society, has kindly agreed to accept a nomination as a new Director of AwF (USA). This was confirmed at a meeting of the AwF (USA) board on 10 May 2006. Kevin has already been serving as an AwF volunteer in Indonesia and we are delighted to have him involved in the management of AwF. Welcome!   
We are pleased to receive the following message from our joint project with Caritas in Bangladesh. Full details of the project can be seen by clicking 'projects' in the navigation panel of this website.   Read More...
News of the commencement of this project has been received from our collaborator in Caritas, Dr. Anwara Begum Shelly. The AwF involvement in this project has been funded by a generous donation from AwF volunteer Dr. M.C. Nandeesha. Our great thanks go to both of them.   Read More...
The following news has been received from AwF trustee Geoff Allan......   Read More...
We were delighted to receive the following report from AwF Volunteer Kevin Fitzsimmons, who returned to Aceh to carry out more work in March 2006.......   Read More...
Today we filed a report on several of our tsunami relief activities in Aceh. We were also pleased to receive the following report from Hasannudin, the Chief of the local Government Fisheries Station, about our hatchery rehabilitation work. It is our first report in bahasa Indonesia.......   Read More...
We are pleased to hear that the location and beneficiaries for our joint AwF-VOSD project have been selected. The following report and photos are from Tamanna Khatun.......   Read More...
We are delighted to report that a group of AwF supporters have raised CAN$ 625 for AwF. We are most grateful that, as well as the many individual donations received, groups of people are beginning to raise funds for our activities - first in Scotland; then England, the USA and France; now Canada.......   Read More...
Usually, we rely on all our friends and volunteers to keep up-to-date with our activities through looking occasionally at this website........   Read More...
AwF wishes to congratulate Professor M.C. Nandeesha (Head of the Department of Fisheries at CAU, Tripura, India) on his recent election as a board member of the World Aquaculture Society. Nandeesha is our very close friend and an AwF volunteer in the AwF-Bishramganj project. He will serve on the WAS board from 2006-2009.   
We have just received this message from the Directorate General of Aquaculture in Indonesia about one of our tsunami activities in Aceh........   Read More...
AwF is planning to give further support to expand our current project in the tribal area of Agartala, Tripura, India. More news on this website soon.   
While they are continuing their assistance to Professional International, AwF volunteers Kevin Fitzsimmons and Dallas Alston are currently also providing technical advice to a second NGO operating in the tsunami-ravaged areas of Aceh, Indonesia, namely Mercycorps.