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
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)
- The first school in Fiadanana (2006)
- Photos of Fiadananas new school being built (2005/6)
- Making bricks to build the school
- Analysis of the need for a school (2005)
Solar water pasteurization and cooking
- How-to Solar Cooking Videos
- Solar cooker update 12/12
- Solar Box cookers in the schools
- Cooking witht the sun
- New, improved cookstoves
- Solar Cookers
- Solar cookers for Madagascar
- What is solar water pasteurization?
- Solar Water Pasteurizer in Action
- Solar cooker update, July 2010
- An innovatiove solar cooker
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)
More Water links
- Metal fences protect the communal faucets
- Water flowing in the village
for the first time
- Communal Water Faucets in the
village
- Water faucet photos from
Oct. 2007
- The community builds their
water system (2006)
- YouTube video about Zahana water stystem
- Status quo 2005 and the need for a communal water system
- Rebuilding the communal well in the second village (2008)
Fiarenana Progress Report July 2009
Our last site visit to village of Fiarenana, in Madagascar in the first week of July 2009.
Bean seeds
Since out last update bean seeds were delivered to the village. With s short growing cycle the villagers wanted to plant beans as an in-between crop in rice paddies right after the rice harvest. As great nitrogen fixers beans could prove very beneficial for the rice paddies, besides providing another great protein source to eat.
Nursery
As intended the once functioning nursery has been revitalized and the former gardener, has been hired by Zahana to tend to the seedlings until they are big enough for transplanting. The goal is that every family starts growing more coffee, so the have some for sale. To date, while they already are growing coffee successfully, all of it is consumed in the village.
Malaria prevention
Zahana was able to get a hold of mosquito nets for every household in the village of Fiarenana. These nets have been distributed and as you can see in the photos have been received and put to good use.
Distributing mosquito nets in the village of Fiarenana in Madagascar
Grain storage building
The building has been finished and officially inaugurated (See photo). The village community wanted to wait until the arrival of Zahana to have this formal dedication. The building is now housing Zahanas seed bank rice, some of this years rice crop that the community is currently still storing.
The communal rice storage building in Fiarenena, Madagascar
Potatoes:
100 kg of potatoes as seed stock was delivered and distributes in the village as requested by the community. As with beans, potatoes can be planted in the fallow rice paddies because they mature before the next rice planting season starts. This is the first time that this variety of potatoes has been introduced to Fiarenana.
The next steps for Fiarenana:
The microcredit project with poultry and may be other life stock, will be launched in Fiarenana in the spring (starting around September in the southern hemisphere).
Please check out website for more detailed updates as we get more photos.
Ihanta, Jeannette and Markus
Thank you for your support!