Access: finance<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MfM-Alex.png\")
Meet Alexandre<\/strong>. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School.<\/h4>\nAlex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer afford to pay the school\u2019s tuition fees.<\/h4>\nOur Education for Life programme stepped in, supporting Alex and others with school fee payment and school kits, which have enabled him to return to school, where he is now progressing well.<\/h4>\nAlex\u2019s story is not uncommon in Madagascar: four in ten children here never finish primary school. That\u2019s far too many, and Our Education for Life programme works reduce that, by enabling more children like Alex to attend school and build a better future.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nFood<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4907-300x200.jpg\")
Tsiry<\/strong>‘s life and school marks have already been changed for the better by Education for Life and our partner Mary\u2019s Meals\u2019 school canteens project.<\/h4>\n\u2018My name is Tsiry.<\/h4>\n\u2018I am in eighth grade at EPP Manerinerina.<\/h4>\n\u2018Before, I was very hungry at school and when I came home every day. I live 30 minutes from the school, about three kilometres.<\/h4>\n\u2018We don’t eat food in the morning at home because my parents are very poor, and school lasts until 12:30.<\/h4>\n\u2018Now, thanks to the new school canteen I am no longer hungry when I come home.<\/h4>\n\u2018My studies are also improving because before I had an average of 9\/20 at school but now I have 12\/20.\u2019<\/h4>\nSome 83%of Madagascar\u2019s rural population, like Tsiry, live in poverty \u2013 on less than \u00a31.50 per day. Nearly 50 per cent of Malagasy children under five suffer from stunting caused by malnutrition, and 40 per cent of Malagasy children never even finish primary school, including because of poverty, while others fail to achieve their potential because of hunger.<\/h4>\nWith your help, Education for Life provides Tsiry and many other children in her position with their first meal of the day, every school day, promoting health and education with the food children need.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAccess: Infrastructure<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5720-1-300x199.png\")
In Amboasarikely<\/strong>, Ambalalava Fokontany<\/strong>, in Madagascar\u2019s Itasy region, children had been unable to even reach school in safety during the country\u2019s rainy season, because the old wooden bridge which was the only route from their homes to the EPP Amboasarikely (Amboasarikely Primary School).<\/h4>\nFailing to attend school because of safety concerns, or risking their lives trying, was an unacceptable choice to force on these children, so Education for Life funded the building of a new bridge, constructed from durable materials and designed to withstand changing weather conditions, to ensure they can now safely attend school every day.<\/h4>\nThe bridge opened in June this year, and is helping not only children, but adults in their community, too.<\/h4>\nRakotoarisoa Andr\u00e9, President of the bridge construction committee, explained: \u2018Previously, if a woman was going to give birth or if someone was sick, we couldn\u2019t cross the river and had to take a longer route to get to the hospital. It was a risk to people\u2019s health. This bridge is like a lifeline.\u2019<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nWater<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6_EPP-talata-Maromena-case-study-photo_ED4L-300x200.jpg\")
One other factor the programme works on is water provision<\/strong>.<\/h4>\nIn the village of Amboanana, and surrounding villages, water is extremely hard to access during the dry season, with community members travelling two kilometres for any kind of supply. Even then, what they can bring back is sufficient only for drinking and cooking: most people often had too little water to wash clothes or even themselves.<\/h4>\nYoung people registered at the Amboananakely Primary School were regularly unable to attend classes either because of the need to travel to fetch water, or because they had become ill due to dehydration and being unable to wash.<\/h4>\nUnder Education for Life, we worked with the local community to install water at the school, meaning young people and adults have water for drinking, washing and bathing, enabling them to attend school and improve their health.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAdults<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SM-1-12-1-300x200.jpg\")
Education for Life also provides resources to parents and other members of the communities<\/strong> of which the children we work with are part.<\/h4>\nAt Ambohibary Primary School, where Education for Life has carried out activities including improving literacy, providing water and food (including by planting fruit trees and making vegetable gardens), teacher training, building a library and delivering school kits for youngsters, we also ensured facilities and programmes were open to parents and other community members.<\/h4>\nOne parent, Angelique Soloniaina, took part in our \u2018literacy at school level\u2019 course for ten months. In this course, she learnt to read and write, skills which she used to learn more about agricultural and livestock farming techniques from books at the school\u2019s library. Using these books, she applied new techniques to her work, and has managed to more than double her income.<\/h4>\nAnother parent of one of the school\u2019s children, Ando Randrianasolo, used the school\u2019s library to learn needlework, and now earns a weekly wage from her work. This includes creating uniforms for the school\u2019s children.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nDigital Learning<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20240507_AVM_Digital-learning-children-practice_EPP-Amboasarikely_Miarinarivo-II-300x200.jpg\")
One other element of Education for Life is working to provide children \u2013 and their teachers \u2013 with the equipment they need<\/strong> to get the most out of their schooling, and make the most of the potential they have.<\/h4>\nEarlier this year, we donated 10 tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker and one hardware user guide to Ambohibary Primary School, and seven tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker, one hardware user guide, 56 Onetab and 56 headsets to Amboasarikely Primary School, as well as one tablet, one Raspberry and one Onetab to the region\u2019s directorate of national education so the authority can provide support and assistance to the schools\u2019 pupils and teachers where necessary.<\/h4>\nThe equipment is already providing teachers with assistance in preparing and explaining lessons to students, and helping students play a more active part in their lessons, paying more attention and engaging more.<\/h4>\nOnjaniaina Rova, Ambohibary Primary School\u2019s principal, said: \u2018Before when we explained the lessons to the students we only made examples in their heads. Now, thanks to these tools we can use images, videos and audio, to help them engage better.\u2019<\/h4>\nEducation for Life is turning a situation into which four in ten Malagasy children never even finish primary school due to poverty, hunger, ill-health and death, into one in which all youngsters receive the access to quality education that every child deserves.<\/h4>\nThis work \u2013 thanks to your help and the dedication of Malagasy people \u2013 is already helping children and the adults in their communities, and is laying the groundwork for ever better education, health, achievements and welfare in those communities in years to come.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. The following are just a few examples of the way our Education for Life programme helps children and their communities improve education, health and welfare, and helps children fulfil their potential, in Madagascar. Access: finance Meet Alexandre. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School. Alex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17989,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21318","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22146,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions\/22146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Meet Alexandre<\/strong>. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School.<\/h4>\nAlex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer afford to pay the school\u2019s tuition fees.<\/h4>\nOur Education for Life programme stepped in, supporting Alex and others with school fee payment and school kits, which have enabled him to return to school, where he is now progressing well.<\/h4>\nAlex\u2019s story is not uncommon in Madagascar: four in ten children here never finish primary school. That\u2019s far too many, and Our Education for Life programme works reduce that, by enabling more children like Alex to attend school and build a better future.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nFood<\/strong><\/h4>\nTsiry<\/strong>‘s life and school marks have already been changed for the better by Education for Life and our partner Mary\u2019s Meals\u2019 school canteens project.<\/h4>\n\u2018My name is Tsiry.<\/h4>\n\u2018I am in eighth grade at EPP Manerinerina.<\/h4>\n\u2018Before, I was very hungry at school and when I came home every day. I live 30 minutes from the school, about three kilometres.<\/h4>\n\u2018We don’t eat food in the morning at home because my parents are very poor, and school lasts until 12:30.<\/h4>\n\u2018Now, thanks to the new school canteen I am no longer hungry when I come home.<\/h4>\n\u2018My studies are also improving because before I had an average of 9\/20 at school but now I have 12\/20.\u2019<\/h4>\nSome 83%of Madagascar\u2019s rural population, like Tsiry, live in poverty \u2013 on less than \u00a31.50 per day. Nearly 50 per cent of Malagasy children under five suffer from stunting caused by malnutrition, and 40 per cent of Malagasy children never even finish primary school, including because of poverty, while others fail to achieve their potential because of hunger.<\/h4>\nWith your help, Education for Life provides Tsiry and many other children in her position with their first meal of the day, every school day, promoting health and education with the food children need.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAccess: Infrastructure<\/strong><\/h4>\nIn Amboasarikely<\/strong>, Ambalalava Fokontany<\/strong>, in Madagascar\u2019s Itasy region, children had been unable to even reach school in safety during the country\u2019s rainy season, because the old wooden bridge which was the only route from their homes to the EPP Amboasarikely (Amboasarikely Primary School).<\/h4>\nFailing to attend school because of safety concerns, or risking their lives trying, was an unacceptable choice to force on these children, so Education for Life funded the building of a new bridge, constructed from durable materials and designed to withstand changing weather conditions, to ensure they can now safely attend school every day.<\/h4>\nThe bridge opened in June this year, and is helping not only children, but adults in their community, too.<\/h4>\nRakotoarisoa Andr\u00e9, President of the bridge construction committee, explained: \u2018Previously, if a woman was going to give birth or if someone was sick, we couldn\u2019t cross the river and had to take a longer route to get to the hospital. It was a risk to people\u2019s health. This bridge is like a lifeline.\u2019<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nWater<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other factor the programme works on is water provision<\/strong>.<\/h4>\nIn the village of Amboanana, and surrounding villages, water is extremely hard to access during the dry season, with community members travelling two kilometres for any kind of supply. Even then, what they can bring back is sufficient only for drinking and cooking: most people often had too little water to wash clothes or even themselves.<\/h4>\nYoung people registered at the Amboananakely Primary School were regularly unable to attend classes either because of the need to travel to fetch water, or because they had become ill due to dehydration and being unable to wash.<\/h4>\nUnder Education for Life, we worked with the local community to install water at the school, meaning young people and adults have water for drinking, washing and bathing, enabling them to attend school and improve their health.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAdults<\/strong><\/h4>\nEducation for Life also provides resources to parents and other members of the communities<\/strong> of which the children we work with are part.<\/h4>\nAt Ambohibary Primary School, where Education for Life has carried out activities including improving literacy, providing water and food (including by planting fruit trees and making vegetable gardens), teacher training, building a library and delivering school kits for youngsters, we also ensured facilities and programmes were open to parents and other community members.<\/h4>\nOne parent, Angelique Soloniaina, took part in our \u2018literacy at school level\u2019 course for ten months. In this course, she learnt to read and write, skills which she used to learn more about agricultural and livestock farming techniques from books at the school\u2019s library. Using these books, she applied new techniques to her work, and has managed to more than double her income.<\/h4>\nAnother parent of one of the school\u2019s children, Ando Randrianasolo, used the school\u2019s library to learn needlework, and now earns a weekly wage from her work. This includes creating uniforms for the school\u2019s children.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nDigital Learning<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other element of Education for Life is working to provide children \u2013 and their teachers \u2013 with the equipment they need<\/strong> to get the most out of their schooling, and make the most of the potential they have.<\/h4>\nEarlier this year, we donated 10 tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker and one hardware user guide to Ambohibary Primary School, and seven tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker, one hardware user guide, 56 Onetab and 56 headsets to Amboasarikely Primary School, as well as one tablet, one Raspberry and one Onetab to the region\u2019s directorate of national education so the authority can provide support and assistance to the schools\u2019 pupils and teachers where necessary.<\/h4>\nThe equipment is already providing teachers with assistance in preparing and explaining lessons to students, and helping students play a more active part in their lessons, paying more attention and engaging more.<\/h4>\nOnjaniaina Rova, Ambohibary Primary School\u2019s principal, said: \u2018Before when we explained the lessons to the students we only made examples in their heads. Now, thanks to these tools we can use images, videos and audio, to help them engage better.\u2019<\/h4>\nEducation for Life is turning a situation into which four in ten Malagasy children never even finish primary school due to poverty, hunger, ill-health and death, into one in which all youngsters receive the access to quality education that every child deserves.<\/h4>\nThis work \u2013 thanks to your help and the dedication of Malagasy people \u2013 is already helping children and the adults in their communities, and is laying the groundwork for ever better education, health, achievements and welfare in those communities in years to come.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. The following are just a few examples of the way our Education for Life programme helps children and their communities improve education, health and welfare, and helps children fulfil their potential, in Madagascar. Access: finance Meet Alexandre. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School. Alex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17989,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21318","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22146,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions\/22146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Alex\u2019s story is not uncommon in Madagascar: four in ten children here never finish primary school. That\u2019s far too many, and Our Education for Life programme works reduce that, by enabling more children like Alex to attend school and build a better future.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nFood<\/strong><\/h4>\nTsiry<\/strong>‘s life and school marks have already been changed for the better by Education for Life and our partner Mary\u2019s Meals\u2019 school canteens project.<\/h4>\n\u2018My name is Tsiry.<\/h4>\n\u2018I am in eighth grade at EPP Manerinerina.<\/h4>\n\u2018Before, I was very hungry at school and when I came home every day. I live 30 minutes from the school, about three kilometres.<\/h4>\n\u2018We don’t eat food in the morning at home because my parents are very poor, and school lasts until 12:30.<\/h4>\n\u2018Now, thanks to the new school canteen I am no longer hungry when I come home.<\/h4>\n\u2018My studies are also improving because before I had an average of 9\/20 at school but now I have 12\/20.\u2019<\/h4>\nSome 83%of Madagascar\u2019s rural population, like Tsiry, live in poverty \u2013 on less than \u00a31.50 per day. Nearly 50 per cent of Malagasy children under five suffer from stunting caused by malnutrition, and 40 per cent of Malagasy children never even finish primary school, including because of poverty, while others fail to achieve their potential because of hunger.<\/h4>\nWith your help, Education for Life provides Tsiry and many other children in her position with their first meal of the day, every school day, promoting health and education with the food children need.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAccess: Infrastructure<\/strong><\/h4>\nIn Amboasarikely<\/strong>, Ambalalava Fokontany<\/strong>, in Madagascar\u2019s Itasy region, children had been unable to even reach school in safety during the country\u2019s rainy season, because the old wooden bridge which was the only route from their homes to the EPP Amboasarikely (Amboasarikely Primary School).<\/h4>\nFailing to attend school because of safety concerns, or risking their lives trying, was an unacceptable choice to force on these children, so Education for Life funded the building of a new bridge, constructed from durable materials and designed to withstand changing weather conditions, to ensure they can now safely attend school every day.<\/h4>\nThe bridge opened in June this year, and is helping not only children, but adults in their community, too.<\/h4>\nRakotoarisoa Andr\u00e9, President of the bridge construction committee, explained: \u2018Previously, if a woman was going to give birth or if someone was sick, we couldn\u2019t cross the river and had to take a longer route to get to the hospital. It was a risk to people\u2019s health. This bridge is like a lifeline.\u2019<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nWater<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other factor the programme works on is water provision<\/strong>.<\/h4>\nIn the village of Amboanana, and surrounding villages, water is extremely hard to access during the dry season, with community members travelling two kilometres for any kind of supply. Even then, what they can bring back is sufficient only for drinking and cooking: most people often had too little water to wash clothes or even themselves.<\/h4>\nYoung people registered at the Amboananakely Primary School were regularly unable to attend classes either because of the need to travel to fetch water, or because they had become ill due to dehydration and being unable to wash.<\/h4>\nUnder Education for Life, we worked with the local community to install water at the school, meaning young people and adults have water for drinking, washing and bathing, enabling them to attend school and improve their health.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAdults<\/strong><\/h4>\nEducation for Life also provides resources to parents and other members of the communities<\/strong> of which the children we work with are part.<\/h4>\nAt Ambohibary Primary School, where Education for Life has carried out activities including improving literacy, providing water and food (including by planting fruit trees and making vegetable gardens), teacher training, building a library and delivering school kits for youngsters, we also ensured facilities and programmes were open to parents and other community members.<\/h4>\nOne parent, Angelique Soloniaina, took part in our \u2018literacy at school level\u2019 course for ten months. In this course, she learnt to read and write, skills which she used to learn more about agricultural and livestock farming techniques from books at the school\u2019s library. Using these books, she applied new techniques to her work, and has managed to more than double her income.<\/h4>\nAnother parent of one of the school\u2019s children, Ando Randrianasolo, used the school\u2019s library to learn needlework, and now earns a weekly wage from her work. This includes creating uniforms for the school\u2019s children.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nDigital Learning<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other element of Education for Life is working to provide children \u2013 and their teachers \u2013 with the equipment they need<\/strong> to get the most out of their schooling, and make the most of the potential they have.<\/h4>\nEarlier this year, we donated 10 tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker and one hardware user guide to Ambohibary Primary School, and seven tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker, one hardware user guide, 56 Onetab and 56 headsets to Amboasarikely Primary School, as well as one tablet, one Raspberry and one Onetab to the region\u2019s directorate of national education so the authority can provide support and assistance to the schools\u2019 pupils and teachers where necessary.<\/h4>\nThe equipment is already providing teachers with assistance in preparing and explaining lessons to students, and helping students play a more active part in their lessons, paying more attention and engaging more.<\/h4>\nOnjaniaina Rova, Ambohibary Primary School\u2019s principal, said: \u2018Before when we explained the lessons to the students we only made examples in their heads. Now, thanks to these tools we can use images, videos and audio, to help them engage better.\u2019<\/h4>\nEducation for Life is turning a situation into which four in ten Malagasy children never even finish primary school due to poverty, hunger, ill-health and death, into one in which all youngsters receive the access to quality education that every child deserves.<\/h4>\nThis work \u2013 thanks to your help and the dedication of Malagasy people \u2013 is already helping children and the adults in their communities, and is laying the groundwork for ever better education, health, achievements and welfare in those communities in years to come.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. The following are just a few examples of the way our Education for Life programme helps children and their communities improve education, health and welfare, and helps children fulfil their potential, in Madagascar. Access: finance Meet Alexandre. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School. Alex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17989,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21318","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22146,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions\/22146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Food<\/strong><\/h4>\nTsiry<\/strong>‘s life and school marks have already been changed for the better by Education for Life and our partner Mary\u2019s Meals\u2019 school canteens project.<\/h4>\n\u2018My name is Tsiry.<\/h4>\n\u2018I am in eighth grade at EPP Manerinerina.<\/h4>\n\u2018Before, I was very hungry at school and when I came home every day. I live 30 minutes from the school, about three kilometres.<\/h4>\n\u2018We don’t eat food in the morning at home because my parents are very poor, and school lasts until 12:30.<\/h4>\n\u2018Now, thanks to the new school canteen I am no longer hungry when I come home.<\/h4>\n\u2018My studies are also improving because before I had an average of 9\/20 at school but now I have 12\/20.\u2019<\/h4>\nSome 83%of Madagascar\u2019s rural population, like Tsiry, live in poverty \u2013 on less than \u00a31.50 per day. Nearly 50 per cent of Malagasy children under five suffer from stunting caused by malnutrition, and 40 per cent of Malagasy children never even finish primary school, including because of poverty, while others fail to achieve their potential because of hunger.<\/h4>\nWith your help, Education for Life provides Tsiry and many other children in her position with their first meal of the day, every school day, promoting health and education with the food children need.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAccess: Infrastructure<\/strong><\/h4>\nIn Amboasarikely<\/strong>, Ambalalava Fokontany<\/strong>, in Madagascar\u2019s Itasy region, children had been unable to even reach school in safety during the country\u2019s rainy season, because the old wooden bridge which was the only route from their homes to the EPP Amboasarikely (Amboasarikely Primary School).<\/h4>\nFailing to attend school because of safety concerns, or risking their lives trying, was an unacceptable choice to force on these children, so Education for Life funded the building of a new bridge, constructed from durable materials and designed to withstand changing weather conditions, to ensure they can now safely attend school every day.<\/h4>\nThe bridge opened in June this year, and is helping not only children, but adults in their community, too.<\/h4>\nRakotoarisoa Andr\u00e9, President of the bridge construction committee, explained: \u2018Previously, if a woman was going to give birth or if someone was sick, we couldn\u2019t cross the river and had to take a longer route to get to the hospital. It was a risk to people\u2019s health. This bridge is like a lifeline.\u2019<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nWater<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other factor the programme works on is water provision<\/strong>.<\/h4>\nIn the village of Amboanana, and surrounding villages, water is extremely hard to access during the dry season, with community members travelling two kilometres for any kind of supply. Even then, what they can bring back is sufficient only for drinking and cooking: most people often had too little water to wash clothes or even themselves.<\/h4>\nYoung people registered at the Amboananakely Primary School were regularly unable to attend classes either because of the need to travel to fetch water, or because they had become ill due to dehydration and being unable to wash.<\/h4>\nUnder Education for Life, we worked with the local community to install water at the school, meaning young people and adults have water for drinking, washing and bathing, enabling them to attend school and improve their health.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAdults<\/strong><\/h4>\nEducation for Life also provides resources to parents and other members of the communities<\/strong> of which the children we work with are part.<\/h4>\nAt Ambohibary Primary School, where Education for Life has carried out activities including improving literacy, providing water and food (including by planting fruit trees and making vegetable gardens), teacher training, building a library and delivering school kits for youngsters, we also ensured facilities and programmes were open to parents and other community members.<\/h4>\nOne parent, Angelique Soloniaina, took part in our \u2018literacy at school level\u2019 course for ten months. In this course, she learnt to read and write, skills which she used to learn more about agricultural and livestock farming techniques from books at the school\u2019s library. Using these books, she applied new techniques to her work, and has managed to more than double her income.<\/h4>\nAnother parent of one of the school\u2019s children, Ando Randrianasolo, used the school\u2019s library to learn needlework, and now earns a weekly wage from her work. This includes creating uniforms for the school\u2019s children.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nDigital Learning<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne other element of Education for Life is working to provide children \u2013 and their teachers \u2013 with the equipment they need<\/strong> to get the most out of their schooling, and make the most of the potential they have.<\/h4>\nEarlier this year, we donated 10 tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker and one hardware user guide to Ambohibary Primary School, and seven tablets, one Raspberry, one pico projector, one speaker, one hardware user guide, 56 Onetab and 56 headsets to Amboasarikely Primary School, as well as one tablet, one Raspberry and one Onetab to the region\u2019s directorate of national education so the authority can provide support and assistance to the schools\u2019 pupils and teachers where necessary.<\/h4>\nThe equipment is already providing teachers with assistance in preparing and explaining lessons to students, and helping students play a more active part in their lessons, paying more attention and engaging more.<\/h4>\nOnjaniaina Rova, Ambohibary Primary School\u2019s principal, said: \u2018Before when we explained the lessons to the students we only made examples in their heads. Now, thanks to these tools we can use images, videos and audio, to help them engage better.\u2019<\/h4>\nEducation for Life is turning a situation into which four in ten Malagasy children never even finish primary school due to poverty, hunger, ill-health and death, into one in which all youngsters receive the access to quality education that every child deserves.<\/h4>\nThis work \u2013 thanks to your help and the dedication of Malagasy people \u2013 is already helping children and the adults in their communities, and is laying the groundwork for ever better education, health, achievements and welfare in those communities in years to come.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. The following are just a few examples of the way our Education for Life programme helps children and their communities improve education, health and welfare, and helps children fulfil their potential, in Madagascar. Access: finance Meet Alexandre. Alexandre \u2013 Alex to his friends \u2013 is a 13-year-old student at Ambohibary I Primary School. Alex is an orphan, looked after by his grandfather. He attended school like any other child, but like many Malagasy children, poverty forced him to leave; in his case because his grandfather could no longer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17989,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21318","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22146,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21318\/revisions\/22146"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Tsiry<\/strong>‘s life and school marks have already been changed for the better by Education for Life and our partner Mary\u2019s Meals\u2019 school canteens project.<\/h4>\n