Quick Links to Zahanas activities in Madagascar:
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Latest web page additions
- Zahana Cup 2024
- Trees Grow - and the boy who planted it
- Getting ready for the 23/24 school year
- Remembering the dream of a woman
- In Memoriam of Jean (12/23)
- What is the Zahana Cup?
- Seed balls for reforestation
- Vegetable Gardens in 2022
- Celebrating seed balls
- Rice bank revitalized
- Jean Zahana's Master Gardener
- Seed Balls
- Innovative pastry oven
- Bicycles for the road
- Hand cranck sewing machine
- Evaluating Reforestation
- Most innovative cookstove 2020
- Our third gardener
- Bicycles mean mobility
- Back to school is different 2020
- Improved cookstove update
- CEPE once again in 2020
- School closure and COVID-19 Prevention
- Improved cookstoves
- Expaning tree nursery
- Innauguration: second school building
- Moringa trees in the school garden
- Clean and Safe Water in Fiarenana
- Solar cooked moringa noodle soup
- Award of Excellence for CARMMA
- CARMMA and CSB1/CSB2
- First Baby born in the new CARMMA rooms
- Moringa in the school yard
- One man, one tree, 1000 Morings seeds
- Video: Moringa Leaves Omelette
- Planting a Moringa Forest in Madagascar
- Zahana 10th Anniversary
- Raising piglets for breading and income
- Potato a new 'old' idea
- Participatory Development Explained
- A failure story with a happy end
- Awarding reforestation
- Int. Women's Day
- Breadfruit - solar cooked videos
- Solar Cooker Videos
- How to video: Build a school
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Microcredit Links
- Piglets in Fiadanana
- Raising piglets for breading and income
- Potato a new 'old' idea
- Growing Artemsia annua for income
- A second gardener for the village of Fiadanana
- Rice Seed bank
- Ducklings
in a bucket)
- Planting 15,00 trees
- A ‘seed fund’
you can eat)
- Growing trees for the
seed fund)
- Potato Seed Fund in Fiarenana
- Planting trees in the
schoolyard)
- Nursery and our master
gardener (2008)
- Microcredit longer text (2008)
- First micocredit in Fiadanana (2007)
MICRO CREDIT OR COMMUNITY LENDING SYSTEMS FOR RURAL MADAGASCAR
Most villages are in remote areas in Madagascar as poor
subsistence farmers, nobody is willing to lend them money for e.g. seeds,
life stock or tools, so they turned to Zahana for help. Word of mouth travels
fast in rural areas as they had heard that Zahana launched a small
microcredit pilot project in Fiadanana in the fall of 2007.
Zahana launched a community based microcredit fund to address this issue in Fiadanana and in Fiarenana. A small organization on a shoestring budget, Zahana does not have the financial means to implement such a program without help from outside donors