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The community builds a school in Madagascar

Communal rice and corn storage bulding in Madagascar

Improving Cookstove technology in Madagascar

Adressing food Security in rural Madagascar

Zahana's photo gallery about rural transofmation in Madagascar

Other issues addressed by zahana in Madagascar

Communal Grain Storage Building

Without a place to store their crops, farmers were forced to sell immediately after harvest when prices are lowest. A communal grain storage building, again built with self-made bricks and the labor of the villagers, allows them to store their harvest of rice and corn safely.

• Building a Rice Storage in Fiadanana • Fiarenana Rice Storage

Grain storage building in Fiadanana Madagascar

Rice and corn storage building in Fidanana Madagascar

Grain storage building in Fiadanana Madagascar

Madagascar: Building the grain storage for Fiadanana

Building the communal rice storage facility: A save place to store rice after the harvest is being built by the villagers.
walls of the grain storage in Faidanana Madagascar

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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.

making bricks in Madagascar making bricksin Faidanana Madagascar

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