Project Sekoly, Madagascar

The Noble Caledonia Charitable Trust has raised over £25,000 for the support of 6 schools in rural Madagascar over the last 5 years, creating places for over 1,631 children. Your support has has not only facilitated the building of 15 new classrooms, it’s also provided 26 new toilet facilities and installed 6 rainwater harvesting systems to provide clean drinking and hand-washing water. It has also established four community tree-planting areas that serve as a food and fuel resource for the local community, are part of lessons on environmental stewardship for the children and act as an emissions reduction area. These projects significantly improve education infrastructure and subsequent academic success of the students. 

 In rural Madagascar 1 in 3 children do not attend even primary school due to the lack of infrastructure, and due to the prevalence of hygiene-related illnesses which prevent them attending school, eventually leading to drop outs. Most schools are in rudimentary buildings, often children are sat on the floor for lessons and in some cases there is no access to clean water or a toilet. Education is the key to breaking the poverty cycle, and after building over 40 schools, SEED Madagascar has seen the impact of education on the futures of the younger generation. SEED has a constant pipeline of rural schools that require refurbishment and extensions, throughout the next five years we aim to complete another 10 school projects, as well as expand into providing interior furniture like benches to other schools that need them.

  Kids at Andramanaka School (SEED School completed prior to Emagnevy beginning)

PROJECT 2024-25: Amboavola Primary School

Challenges:

267 students across five grades currently share only two classrooms that lack furniture so overcrowding forces half-day schedules for many students, reducing their learning time drastically The existing school building is in significant disrepair with damage from cyclones; There is no on-site water supply so students must rely on a broken community well, this increases the risk of waterborne diseases from contamination and open defecation in the area; The lack of sanitation facilities prevents students from maintaining hygiene, especially affecting menstruating students who lack safe menstrual hygiene options.

 Proposed project:

Repairing the existing school building and constructing a new school building with 3 additional classrooms; Providing benches, desks and blackboards for all classrooms; Repairing the existing groundwater well and installing a 10,000L rainwater harvesting system for drinking water and hand-washing; Building 6 latrines and 1 menstrual hygiene cubicle; Building teacher housing to reduce staff absenteeism; Establishing a tree-planting area to offset the building emissions and provide a food and fuel resource for the local community; Establishing a solar system that will provide green energy for the school and community; Providing students and teacher with water, sanitation and hygiene education.

  Previous School Projects we have supported include:

Ranamofana High School, Emagnevy Primary School, Mandiso Lower Secondary School and Sarisambo Primary and Lower Secondary Schools, Beandry school. Cumulatively we have supported:

 Refurbishment of 4 school buildings Building of 14 new classrooms

Enabling 1,326 safe classroom places

Building of 30 latrines

Buildings of 6 menstrual hygiene cubicles 

Building of 4 handwashing stations

Building of 7 teacher’s accommodations

Installed 7 rainwater harvesting systems for drinking and handwashing water

Enabled the plantation of 4 community forest and offset sites.

Emagnevy School finished 

Classroom and latrine block at Sarisambo before the project started

Students at Mandiso helping to plant the site trees 

Emganevy Primary School Teachers

Kids outside Emagnevy Primary School 

Kids outside Emagnevy Primary School