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New Member Joins SAVA Conservation Team
SAVA Conservation is pleased to announce that in January of this year, Louis Joxe
Jaofeno (“Joxe”), joined the Sambava-based project team. Joxe is not an unknown to the
project, as in the past he has been hired for by-the-task contract work, mostly for English
teaching and environmental education. As DLC-SC environmental education programs
grow, and as Lanto has become busier with other aspects of the project, the decision was
made to bring Joxe on in a full time role. Joxe’s primary responsibility lies with environ-
mental education, but he also helps out with other activities such as family planning and
trainings in yam cultivation.
Joxe is originally from Cap Est region, which is the eastern most point of the island of
Madagascar, and found in the northeast adjacent to Masoala National Park. His older
brother worked for WWF in Marojejy about 12 to 15 years ago, before the reserve was
gazetted as a national park. Joxe frequently visited his brother during this time and be-
came quite familiar with the reserve and the local community of Manantenina, near the
park entrance. In fact, Joxe was among the first group of students from the Alliance Fran-
caise in Andapa that visited Marojejy.
After finishing his high school diploma in Andapa, he attended the University of Diego
for five years, where he studied English and tourism. He completed his Bachelor’s Degree
(“License”) and nearly finished his Masters (“Maitrise”). Towards the end of 2011, he re-
ceived an opportunity to visit the University of Western Ontario in Canada where he lived
and studied for several months, as well as surviving his first ever blizzard and sub-zero
temperatures! More recently, he worked for more than two years as the Director of the
Regional Tourism Office in Sambava (ORT), a post with considerable responsibility.
Joxe is married and has one son who is two years old.
Joxe at his former job with the Regional Office of Tourism in Sambava.
