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About Zahana: Our GoalsA little money goes a long way in Madagascar Donate Now to Zahana with a Credit Card How you can get involved/Donate to Zahana About the Global Giving Green Challenge click here More information: Watch our Zahana videos: Basic Information about Madagascar Other Resources: SunNight the BoGo Solar Flashlight 2006 WE GOT WATER IN THE VILLAGE! Via email: Info Back to www.zahana.org Malaria Prevention in Fiadanana
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NEWS AND UPDATES:
Please check out "latest news" as well. Please see/read the pages ‘Where do we work?’ and ‘Development Work (longer text)’ to better understand the context of this web page. Thank you for your support! What we have accomplished so far: What has happened since the web site was launched in December of 2005? The construction for the permanent water system is accomplished! For the first time ever the village of Fiadanana has clean water flowing right into the village. A 40 year old dream has come true in October 2006!
Click here for more water pictures In short: The woman’s group will start the first microcredit project, with Zahana providing the seed money to kick-start the project. We tested the improved cookstove design Two teachers for the new school have been
trained and hired For a report from May 2007 please click here The villagers, with the help of Zahana,
have built their permanent water system. (more) The women’s groups started a communal
garden in the schoolyard. (more) SCHOOL The school building was finished in Decemeber of 2005! For more school pictures please click here GRAINERY The grain storage building, starting with the next harvest used as a communal facility, has been built by the villagers as well.
For more grainery pictures please click here The cement for the retaining
wall has been carried up the mountain and the catchment system is being
constructed.(for pictures
click here) Roofing
material had been sent by Zahana to
Fiadanana October 15. October 15, 2006 Hi, Something wonderful happened and everything
just fell in place moving in the good way. Our dream is coming true: In
few weeks people in the village will have their potable water, their
grain storage
building and kids will finally go to school!!! All these events are like
a miracle for us.
3- The school will be built by the end of this month as well. The bricks originally made were insufficient to built the school and we needed more. So the villagers made them. The grenier (corn/rice storage building) is almost finished. The corrugated iron for the roofs, both grenier and school, were sent by truck yesterday. And at this time they must put the roof for the grenier as soon as possible, so it can be used immediately.
Tuesday, 15 Aug 2006 Visit to Fiadanana August 9-11 2006 Report from Zahana President via email This time a team of three physicians visited the village of Fiadanana. Two of them are Zahana board members and one of them a infections disease specialist that volunteered to come along. Cleaning the village:
For more pictures cleaning the village please click here Planting Fruit Trees: Zahana had brought seedlings of fruit trees: mangos,
orange, Loquat (bibasse), banana and papaya from a nursery in the capital
to
be planted in the school garden. These trees are hoped to built
the foundation of many more fruit trees. Children were asked
to dig the garden around the school to plant the fruit trees. One observation during this activity: Its easier to get young people involved than the older ones. When they see members of Zahana actively participating in the actions (not just communicating with the village via messengers), they become motivated to participate themselves. In the morning when we said: “lets go to dig the garden because you boys havent anything to do right now”, a few minutes later girls and boys already came running with their tools. For more pictures of planting fruit trees in the school please click here Bricks for the School: For more pictures of brick making please click here General Assembly: For the garbage: water should be sprayed on regularly, because water kills the disease carrying fleas. Consultation and
feedback from the pysicians: Other Events: We also started a boy’s soccer club, which we provided with a soccer ball. During our stay, the girls followed suit starting their own girl’s soccer club, but we still need to provide them with their own soccer ball. June 27 by email: All the wooden materials, doors and windows, building
supplies (nails, hinges, some tools) for the school and rice storage
building were sent to Fiadanana last week. To transport the building
supplies an eight tons truck was needed. Unfortunately there was no more
room for the hand pump, since the bridge cannot support more
than this weight. Visit to Fiadanana June 2006
Activities during
the visit: Distribution of 118 mosquito nets to the community. Conducting a workshop on its use and care. The following priorities were set by the villagers based on community consensus: Priority was given to pregnant women
Demonstration of the portable water SunRay
pasteurizer: School
Overall observations
March 2006
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