A morning of planting flamboyant trees at the C.A.L.A. Belfort village. An activity chosen by the children, to help celebrate “Journées des écoles” last week. Thank you to all the students and teachers for their participation!! Well done! Keep on planting Antalaha!!!
I spent last Saturday with the English Club. We walked the mountain of Macolline together, talked about plant and tree species, saw lots of wild life and ate fruit right off the trees. The guides (also my students) did the tour in English. This group is so motivated and dynamic, I am beginning to see…
Yola did not do very well this semester in school due to a late start, so I have hired two of my English students to be her tutors for the next two semesters. They split the work according to the subjects that they are good at. She now gets help for 4 hours a week…
I was called “Mère Noel” this year at the C.A.L.A. villages. Marie-Hélène and I distributed candies and cookies to all the kids at the same time as they were handed their end of term report cards. Thank you to JHA FUND supporters for helping make all this happen!!!
It’s official. Macolline has been accepted to the Charter of Sustainable Tourism in Madagascar. Today, those that were accepted were invited to Sambava by Richard Bohan, head of tourism marketing and sustainable tourism in Madagascar, for the signing of our certificate. Seeing as we have contributed to cleaning up the commune of Antalaha as well…
Jiji the French clown from the NGO “Les enfants d’abord” was in the area for three weeks and he was a hit all around the commune of Antalaha! He had given me a few days notice that he was coming so I was able to organize his schedule with six (6) different schools in the…
Well in to the second month of my stay. Time is flying by, as I knew it would. There is so much to do and the time passes by so quickly. I wish that I could blog more often but I find myself so tired at the end of the day that even if I do have…
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