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The community builds a school in Madagascar

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Building the School in Fiadanana -Madagascar

• Please also visit: Building a school in Fairenana in 2009

A school for the village’s children was the community’s second highest development priority. Until 2005 less than a dozen children had ever gone to school, walking for miles to attend school in other villages.

Built with community labor and bricks made in the village, Fiadanana now has its first school, attended by over 150 children (as of May 2008). Zahana hired and committed to pay the two teachers’ salaries for the frist two years. To prepare and train them to teach children who have never gone to school before, an educational specialist was hired to spend six weeks in the village conducting the training.

To provide enough room for all students, a second school building is the next step for the community, who started making the bricks in the spring of 2008 to expand the exisiting structure.

For Photos of Fiadanana's new school being built please click here

For a situation analysis regarding the school from 2005 please click here

• The School was inaugurated in July 2007 and classes began

• School for Fiadanana was bulit by the villagers

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School Building and Cooking Pavillion (in the back to the right)

Two teachers for the new school have been trained and hired

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Fiadanana's two teachers, teaching over 140 of the village's children

For background information about the school click here please

Building the school for Fiadanana in Madagascar

Building the School: Fiadanana never had a school for its children. With bricks made by the villagers they built their own school building.

Bricks for the new school in Fiadanana Madagascar

Please click for more pictures about building the school

Making the bricks: As a corner stone of Zahana’s approach villagers contribute their labor and locally available materials to all the projects. The bricks for the school and the communal rice storage facility were made by the villagers on site.

Please click for more pictures about making bricks for the school

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