Scuba + Conservation + Teach + Island Hopping in Madagascar
- Madagascar
- Nosy Komba
About Program
Join a leap team in Madagascar to help with marine and lemur conservation, and teaching English. This is all before island hopping, on a 50 ft boat, around remote islands to meet indigenous communities and rare lemur species.
Programs vary from 3 - 10 weeks and depart throughout the year.
A 10 week program would include all of the following, helping protect a unique eco-system.
Scuba and Marine Conservation
Scuba train up to advanced level, after which you will be ready to head out with marine scientists to assess the health of the reef system.
Forest Conservation
Trek into the jungle to study the diversity, populations and habitat of the lemurs, lizards and insects.
Teach Conversational English
Live with a local community on a remote islands teaching and building a school.
Island Hopping
Join us on a 50ft boat to meet remote islands communities, explore untouched forests and search for rare wildlife.
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Program Highlights
- Island hopping around remote islands
- Studying rare lemur species
- Meeting local communities
- Exploring tropical islands
- Learning to scuba amoungst tropical fish and turtles
Response from The Leap
We are saddened and confused to read this feedback. The feedback we had throughout the 10 weeks was positive and everyone seemed to be happy their projects and life in camp. Some even juggling a couple of projects at a time so they were really busy. Every week there was a meeting to air any worries and change thing should they need to be tweaked...
Pre-departure, we make it very clear, that the Leap are guests of MRCI, as are the other companies who send volunteers there. All the camp staff are employed by MRCI and the camp director acts as our co-ordinator making sure you are happy, healthy and getting the most out of your experience. In addition we have Riassa on hand to help with anything medical should you need to go the doctor.
As for the reputation – sadly, we did have a particular group early in the year who played particularly hard so I can only apologise for the “hangover reputation”. This was very stressful for us all to manage certain individuals who didn't respect our values. Thankfully everyone since has been amazing and fantastic ambassadors for The Leap so that should be a thing of the past.
When I visited in November everyone seemed to be having a great time and the feedback has been so positive, so this has come as such a shock, if only we had known, we could done something about it as the staff there are so kind and helpful.
We will look into it and try other ways to encourage our volunteers to speak up if they are worried about things.
The diving especially was loved by others - one of the boys wrote to tell me that "the diving was extremely well organised and an incredible life experience."
We really care at the Leap to make everyone's experience special and gutted that we didn't know this is how you felt until now. I only wish you had come to me or Jen first and we could have done something at the time to address your concerns.
Best wishes,
Milly