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VIDEO: A Fisherman's Freedom in Madagascar

March 9, 2017

Ravelo was trapped; He couldn't afford to continue paying the local loan shark to rent fishing equipment, because he couldn't catch fish to sell and make his payments. He couldn't catch fish because the mangrove estuaries had been depleted of wood for fire, in turn decimating the population of fish and seafood.

When Ravelo was hired by Eden Reforestation Projects, he was not only able to make an income planting trees, but his environment began to revitalize.

Eden Reforestation Projects hired Outskirt Films to tell this story on the remote coast of Madagascar. This powerful story was filmed in Madagascar by Outskirt Films.

In News and Social Action, Environment and Sustainability Tags fisherman, jobs, local, Africa, Madagascar, freedom, fish, plant, trees, planting, reforestation, equipment, money, finances, social justice, equality, income, income equality, Environment, International Affairs
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