EDUCATION
We feed 98,000 children every school day in 542 schools, covering a 200 mile stretch of the COFAV forest corridor
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In collaboration with our partner Mary’s Meals
Every school day, nearly 100,000 children in Madagascar receive a warm, nutritious meal through our School Feeding Programme — delivered in partnership with Mary’s Meals. From improved attendance and exam results to closer ties with the communities and support for local farmers, this daily meal sets off a ripple effect that reaches far beyond the classroom and fuels many of our other environmental and developmental projects.
Our dream is to take advantage of every window of opportunity that the School Feeding Programme opens, whether it’s building a borehole to bring clean water, growing trees to restore forests and protect water sources, or improving agriculture and building businesses, together.
If you would like to help us fund these next steps, and scale up our impact please do consider donating and spread the word.
We are deeply committed to providing education for all in Madagascar, particularly in the remote countryside where we work.
A quarter of all Malagasy children are out of school, and the figure is far higher in the rural areas. With few facilities and unpaid teachers, most children are forced to work in the fields instead.
The quality of education is further hampered by a lack of clean water. Many schools lack running water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. As a result many pupils frequently fall sick and don’t attend classes, impacting on their already disadvantaged education.
But education is crucial to the Malagasy people, and children and parents alike dream of going to school. In the communities where we work, parents make huge efforts to help their children attend, even paying for extra teachers and building and repairing their own schools.
We believe in primary education for all, and secondary and adult education for all who want it.
Our educational projects have been extremely successful, and thanks to them, nearly 20,000 children are now educated every day in spacious, well-equipped classrooms.
Vohitsaoka High School, one of the Cyclone proof school built by Feedback Madagascar
Pupils in Ranotsara Primary school receiving school stationary
Girls on their way home from Ankarinomby Secondary School
Children receiving meals in Antoebe Primary School
Parents preparing children’s meals in Antoebe Primary School
Antoebe Primary School after the paasage of Cyclone Batsirai
To achieve this, we build and kickstart schools, providing planning, materials, permissions, and technical back-up, while the community provides the labor and the will to make them work. Setting up a school cements our relationship with communities in every sense, building trust and momentum for lifelong learning and collaboration. Due to our holistic approach, we can often build in the drilling of boreholes for clean water, tree planting, and environment education to ensure the education is as sustainable as possible.
We have built 103 schools, covering a 200-mile stretch of the forest corridor in areas where none existed before. Our first school, in Sandrakely, has sent over 200 pupils to secondary school and many former pupils have gone on to university and even into a government career.
Impact
Feeding 98,000 children every school day in a place of education in 542 schools
253 new classrooms built, 111 solid anti-cyclone in 100 schools over 4 regions
345 classrooms renovated
Over 200 sent children to secondary school
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Help support the people of Madagascar. Your donation could go towards building a cyclone proof school that gives children and their families a safe place to shelter..