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Making Bricks for the School in Fiadanana in 2006
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- 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
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- One man, one tree, 1000 Morings seeds
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- How to video: Build a school
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their contribution to the development effort the villagers had
agreed to provide the bricks and their labor to the construction
of the school. In Madagascar bricks, provided clay is available,
are often locally made by specialized brick makers.
The clay needs to be dug from a clay pit and each brick is made
by hand in a wooden mold. Lined up and dried in the sun the bricks
are then piled up in larger structures and slowly burned (either
with wood or peat moss). The process of burning can take up to
a week or two, depending on the amount of bricks and the weather.
Burned clay bricks are more durable and resistant to rain than
rammed earth bricks, are easier to maintain and are better suited
for the school.
The bricks for the school should be ready in 15 days around August
25, 2006. The building of the school will start the last week
of August and the school should be finished and ready to use
in September 2006. In the past few weeks there was too much rain
and the villagers werent able to make the bricks. Every time
it rains they have to interrupt making the clay blocks, since
they need to be dried in the sun before they can be burned.
The clay pit is located close to some rice paddies, where the best clay can be found. (All Fotos: Ramihantaniarivo 2006)
The clay has to be mixed (stomped with the feet) with water to the right consistency
In wooden molds each brickis shaped by hand and then dried in the sun.
Pictures of the finished school click here
More School Links
- Moringa in the school garden
- Highschool exam passed
- Ready for high school entrance exam
- School lunch
- Santa visits the school
- Successful in Secondary School
- Solar Box cookers in the schools
- Watch our How to build a school video
- Getting ready for secondary school
- Celebrating the CEPE diploma (back in 2011)
- Creating a beautiful environment
- The first school in Fiadanana (2006)
- The school in the second village (2009)
- School gardens
- Soup in the School of Fiarenana
- Training the teachers on site
Building our schools:
- Building a second school (2009)
- Inaugurating the community built school (Mar 2010)
- Photos of the almost finished school (Jan. 2010)
- The Community is building their school (Sept 2009)
Building the first school (2006)