By Kate Robey | Charitable Trust Operations Manager
Dear Supporter,
The work we do at GVI Seychelles could not be done without support of our local partners, whether directly or indirectly. While we can often feel like we are in an isolated bubble here at Cap Ternay, living within a couple hundred meters of the marine park that we dive in so often, we work in collaboration with many partners throughout the year. One of these partners is the Seychelles National Park Authority (SNPA)
To build upon the relationship and allow the GVI volunteers and SNPA staff to get to know each other, together we organized a few team building day activities. You might be wondering what this has to do with the children who live at President's Village Children's Home? Well, this team building activity was a challenge to raise money for the President's Village! We all participated in our annual Raft for Rupees!
Each year at this time, rafts from GVI staff and volunteers line up alongside those of SNPA, racing to and around a mooring buoy several hundred meters into the bay, and back again. The event continues to grow in success, and teams are certainly improving their times, with the winning SNPA team returning to the beach in less than half an hour, an all time record! While unfortunately teams from other organizations were not able to gather teams and build rafts this year, we hope that future years will bring more teams into the equation, which may even give GVI a chance! Well done to SNPA for reigning victorious (again) and to the winning GVI team for pulling ahead of the others in the last 20 meters!
Another, more recent, partner the Green Islands Foundation (GIF) joined us in Cap Ternay with 15 children for a day of lessons and activities on sharks. GVI volunteers split up into three groups to teach different shark-facts. One group discussed sharks tails and teeth and what they mean for hunting, eating and swimming. Another discussed local sharks and where they are most commonly found. The last group talked about the importance of sharks in the food web.
After all the lessons were done, we went down to the mangroves to see where the lemon sharks hide when they are pups and then headed off for a snorkel on the reef. It was great to see the kids learning so much and even getting to explore the reef.
Thank you for your support. Without your generous donations partnerships and activities like these would not be possible.
With Gratitude,
GVI-Seychelles
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