About Me!

I consider myself a person who wants to dedicate her life to trying to make a change, to understand and learn about the spectacular World we live in. I want to protect nature and its biodiversity. I also want to help people and the millions of species depending on that interaction.

This is the reason why I wanted a volunteer program with WWF to confront the reality and the actual problems that conservation has to face. I wanted to take out my eyes from the laboratory and see what this World has to confront every day and how our human actions are accelerating its destruction with every step we take.

First of all, I was really put face to face with what conservation in action is in Madagascar. The people, the problems and the understanding of how this interaction works. One might have learned all the methods and techniques and have the motivation to help, but at times it is not enough to work with a community. It takes a greater understanding of how they are impacted and how they feel, in this case by how the degradation of the coral reef and it species affects the local population.

Second of all, one must be patient and put yourself in their position all the time. I realized that in our project, sometimes it was not just people’s actions, like different fishing methods or the trash thrown to the sea that degraded the coral reef, but it was also our actions in our developed countries, i.e. all the pollution at sea, atmosphere, and the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources. So I tried to have this in mind in my interaction with the fishermen and families, and it is in that contact with the people that I began to learn and truly understand. It was difficult for them to comprehend why we were trying to help them and why the different programs we wanted to create with them.

The WWF program with its vast experience facilitates the achievement of the different goals. It’s very fun and comprehensive and in addition, there’s the human part, where you have to work together and find this balance between conservation and the people’s needs.

It was a special opportunity to learn how to work in a group. As part of it you realize the consequences of your actions, your learning from other colleagues with different cultural backgrounds and you are contaged by the same motivation and committement towards this cause. It was just an amazing experience.  At the same time, I learnt a lot of myself. This experience helped me understand which way I’m going to work in my future and continue making a difference.

Finally, it was a unique experience meeting, helping the people in our villages. So different from us yet so close to us. They really opened their arms and hearts to us. They made us feel at home. That’s why now; I miss that home I left in Madagascar. Every single smile from the children, their laugh and happiness with just little things, every detail, their culture.

I must say that you really make a connection with the people and the beautiful country of Madagascar with its amazing landscapes and unique animal species!!!