AwF issues complete financial summary since its founding date

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!