Category Archives: Updates

AQUAMEDIT 2010 pledges donation to AwF

AQUAMEDIT 2010, the 5^th International Congress on Aquaculture, Fisheries Technology and Environmental Management, will be held at the Aquaculture & Fisheries Management Department of the Technological Education Institute (TEI), Mesolonghi , Greece , 25-27 November 2010. Its theme is Capture Based Aquaculture: Combining Fisheries and Aquaculture for Sustainable Development. As usual, the principal organiser of this conference is the Panhellenic Society of Technologists Ichthyologists (PA.S.T.I.).

AQUAMEDIT 2010 has pledged to donate one (1) Euro to AwF for every delegate that registers for the Congress, plus the amount from a collection box placed on the registration desk.

PASTI has contributed to AwF several times before in this way and we are most grateful to its President, Michael Chatziefstathiou, for his kind initiative.

Full details about the programme of AQUAMEDIT 2010 are available from http://homepages.pathfinder.gr/pasti/pages_UK.htm.

AwF issues complete financial summary since its founding date

For the first time, the accounts of AwF and AwF (UK) covering the period since their inception in 2003 until the end of May 2010 have been released (see Reports page: AwF Financial Summary 2003-2010. PDF). 

During this period AwF and AwF (UK) have received over US$135,000 in donations.

Total expenses have been $7,160 [mainly bank charges, filing fees and fund-raising costs incurred by AwF; fund-raising costs incurred by AwF (UK) do not appear in the accounts because only net income is recorded].

Total project funding utilising these donations has reached nearly $68,000. In addition, AwF and AwF (UK) have utilised over $174,000 in joint activities with other organisations.

Thus the total funds raised by AwF and AwF (UK) have reached almost $310,000 and the funds already used in our work are approaching $250,000.

New AwF website gets kudos

Since launching on Tuesday, May 18th (12 days ago), the new AwF website has been visited 2,111  times (avg. 176 visits/day). The Board of Directors has received numerous emails and phone calls of congratulations from colleagues and friends; the response has been extremely positive. Below are some examples:

From Peter Edwards, Bangkok, Thailand: The new website looks good and should help the cause.

From Narayanan Kutty, Kerala, India: Have seen the new website. It looks great – now the possibilities of its expansion as needed seem to be infinite. 

From Wagner Valenti, Brazil: I have visited the new webpage of AwF and liked it very much! Congratulations to you and other directors!”

AwF and University of Arizona receive farmer-to-farmer aquaculture niche award from US-AID

We are pleased to announce that the US-AID has awarded $97,528 in a one year grant to administer a Farmer-to-Farmer program sending volunteers to India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and New Caledonia to work with local aquaculture farmers to implement more sustainable farming techniques.  The original proposal can be seen on our projects page (current projects and field activities).  

Together we can achieve wonderful things

AwF is undertaking a number of initiatives to make itself better known to the glogal aquaculture community and to the public at large.

To the right is an advertisement that appeared in the March 2010 issue of World Aquaculture, published quarterly by the World Aquaculture Society (WAS). The ad space was donated by WAS, which is very much appreciated as all funding received is targeted to development projects.

If your organization has a publication, please considering running one of our ads in it because “Together we can achieve wonderful things.”

Contact us today!

New report on the success of AwF’s work in Nepal

The recently received report AwF – Nepal: Empowering women through small-scale aquaculture covers the major activities of a small-scale aquaculture project with objectives of improving nutrition and income of rural communities by empowering women. The two-year project (Jan 2008-Dec 2009) was funded by Aquaculture without Frontiers (AwF) and launched in “Rainas Tar” within the Dhamilikuwa Village Development Committee,of Lamjung, a mid-hill district of Nepal, in collaboration with the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal and a local NGO.

Summer of AwF fundraising in Northern Ireland

In our news item dated 26 September 2009 we mentioned fundraising activities for AwF in Northern Ireland and showed a picture from one of them – John Osprey abseiling in Belfast.

Now we are able to provide more details in the attached PDF, which is adapted from a story in The Antrim Times. A fish health expert, Rev. Dr. Scott Peddie is a Trustee of AwF (UK) and was formerly the treasurer and a board member of the European Aquaculture Society.

It is hoped that this story may give ideas to other supporters of AwF activities!

AwF fundraising activities

For a summary of AwF fundraising activities to date, click here.

AwF Director raises funds in Northern Ireland

Many thanks to AwF (UK) Director Scott Peddie for raising funds (nearly £195) for us in a fun event last month. Such events not only enhance our income but help to publicise our work in developing countries (in this case amongst children too). A scanned copy of a report in the Antrim Times is provided here.

Scott tells us that he is planning more activities in aid of AwF. Many thanks to him for his initiatives.

Four reports from our field projects received this month

Four reports from our field projects have been received this month (thanks to AwF Director M.C. Nandeesha). They can be viewed on the Projects page of this website. Two are from Bangladesh (AwF-Caritas and AwF-RDRS) and two from India (AwF-Bishramganj Phase 3 and AwF-Toleo Foundation).

We are delighted that these projects are going well and glad that we have supported them. Our sincere thanks go to our individual AwFdonors and to the ToleoFoundation for their financial support, which made our work in these projects possible.

We are always interested in new proposals for small projects for consideration by our Technical Advisory Group, which is chaired by AwF Director Geoff Allan. Details of the procedure for writing and submitting proposals can be found on the Proposals page of this website. The type of projects we consider can be judged from the nature of our current projects and from reading our About Us-Background page.