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Madventurer
A madventurer is a person who lives for adventure, to understand cultures, to contribute to the world, who works hard and plays hard. The term was coined by British born Filanthropist and entrepreneur John Lawler.

Madventurer Ltd.

Madventurer Ltd. is the company started by John Lawler in 1998 after some bad experiences with gap year companies in the past.

History

In 1998 John Lawler traveled to Ghana on his own gap year project, after stepping off the plane he broke his ankle and spent the first few days of his gap year in a hosptial. He soon travelled to a local viallge and proceeded to help set up and teach in a secondary school while on crutches. The villagers were impressed with John Lawler and so they enstooled his as a cheif Torgbui Mottey meaning pioneering pathfinder through the forest. This inspired John to set up his own university society the Mottey African Development (MAD) society and eventually his won company Madventurer.

Projects and Adventures
Madventurer run award winning vounteer projects and adventures lasting anything from 2-52 weeks. 'Venturers' work as part of a team alongside local communties in developing countires round thw world.

Work Hard- Play Hard Madventurer believe that as well as working hard venturers should have the opportunity to experience adventures too anything from a camel ride to Timbuktu or swimming with manta rays in Fiji.

Terminology
Madventurer- someone who has taken a gap year project with the company is a madventurer, intead of being called volunteers or customers madventurers are simply reffered to as venturers.

Mad Tribe- when you become a madventurer you also become a member of the mad tribe which enables you discount on future projects updates and information on the company and an inviation to the mad ball, an annual event held for all venturers to meet up and share their Mad experiences.

Mad Foundation
The Mad Foundation is the chaity run by Madventurer. A percentage of all money made by Madventurer is donated to the Mad Foundation which funds and sustains all the projects which they run overseas.