Visiting Money for Madagascar Projects

Ulrike and Hans came across some Money for Madagascar projects on stuff your rucksack website, http://www.stuffyourrucksack.com and this brought them all the way from Germany to pay a visit to the Akany Avoko Faravohitra childrens' home and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd centre . They were so kind to bring some useful donations which included children clothes and some pain relief drugs such as paracetamols which are really needed especially at a time when most girls have complained of toothache.

We encourage people who intend to travel to Madagascar to 'stuff their rucksack' with as many donations as they could. You can have the pleasure of visiting the centres and handing over your donations in person. We encourage anyone coming soon to bring baby clothes as two young girls are expecting babies and clothes would be very useful for them.

Money for Madagascar says a huge thank you to Ulrike and Hans.

Ray of Hope for Madagascar Schools

The parents from Manamanjaka Primary School are over-joyed with the arrival of solar energy to their school. Before there was NO ELECTRICITY at all in their village.  Now the students have lighting to support their studies. Before the arrival of the Solar panel last week the parents would walk 25km every Saturday to the nearest town with electricity to charge their phones. Now they can charge their phone at the school which means they can use their phone all week and can save themselves a lot of time and leg-ache. And the teachers are probably the happiest of all. Firstly the arrival of electricity brings light to the classrooms. 

Secondly the modest fees charges for charging phone and batteries will bring a vital income to the school to enable teachers’ salaries to be paid, at last! Not only do they now have power in school which can greatly support their teaching, but also the arrival of solar energy has the ‘power’ to transform the students’ education with potential access to audio-visual  educational resources like language CDs, educational films and potentially much more.