Quick Links to Zahanas activities in Madagascar:
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Latest web page additions
- Reforestation 2.0
- Innovative bio-charcoal machine
- 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
- Our third gardener
- Bicycles mean mobility
- 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
- 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
- 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
Reforestation in Action
- Celebrating seed balls
- Seed Balls
- Evaluating reforestation (May 2021)
- Third gardener
- Expaning tree nursery
- Improved cookstoves
- Moringa trees in the school garden
- Planting a Moringa Forest in Madagascar
- Mango harvest in the school
- 3rd Award Reforestations 2016
- Breadfruit in the solar cooker
- Reforestation update
- Reforestation Update
- Planting a community forest
- Reforestation Assessment
- Awards for tree planting
- Planting 15,000 trees
- Jean, Zahana's Master Gardener
- Bary, the second gardener
- March 2013: Women planting more trees
- Growing seedlings for the community
- Planting trees in the schoolyard
- Planting Moringa Olifera
- 2012 Communal Tree Planting
- New forest next to the schools
- Reforestation in 2007
- Planting the first trees in 2006
Microcredit Links
- Innovative bio-charcoal machine
- Innovative cookstoves
- Pastry Oven
- 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)
Reforestation in the school of Fiadanana
Note from 2024: This text is from 2007, our first attempts at reforestation.
A living fence around the schoolyard, with plants that provide shade as well as food was intended to demonstrate the concept of reforestation hands on to the students. Right after the school was built parents planted bananas in anticipation of the opening of their school. (Planting fruit trees please click here)
The relentless sun in the dry season makes it challenging to find plants that adapt well to Fiadanana’s climate. Taking a leap of faith and embarking in trail and error to see what takes root and what may not, works best. In October 2007 seeds were given to Zahana from a farmer nearby that grew well for them in the this climate. The result is the living fence you see in the pictures from April 2008.
Communal Water faucet next to the school
Bananas planted as the future living fence for the school
The new living fence
Taking a break in the shade with the teacher
Shade offers many new games...
Also see the other Zahana reforestation programs