HoAvy – the Children Dance and Sing With Joy

Aid Projects, Community Projects, Demonstration Sites, Developments, Education Centres, Village Development — by Martina Petru September 17, 2010

Field news: last’s week’s Rain Dance video!

Many thanks to all of you who have recently given a little love to Madagascar.

Please check out this movie of kids in the Ranobe village, who spontaneously gathered this week to sing an amazing song after HoAvy installed a 500L water tank, contributed by U of M Masters Students. Watch the kids celebrate the first water delivery system in the village, resulting in (relatively) high water pressure and delivery out to the field around the research center. It was placed on the top of the research center (about 20 feet/6 meters off the ground).

Expanding irrigation infrastructure to improve agriculture productivity and access to clean drinking is on the top of HoAvy’s list for 2010-2012.

The song I suppose has been composed for some time now, and although I don’t have an exact translation I understand they are singing about
HoAvy, the water for drinking, no more charcoal and how Martina has a strong head!

HoAvy is in the middle of our 2010 fund-drive to build a community center in the Ranobe village – so we could really use your help by making a small donation and passing on this link to your friends and networks.

Working directly with local people is the best way to conserve the unique bio-diversity here in SW Madagascar and is why we need your help to reach our goal to build this community center and do a lot for a small village at the edge of the world.

This week in Ranobe construction will ramp up. After a cool winter hibernation here in the south we have a lot of work to do – including finish the mud walls inside the building, put in a mud floor, and start landscaping.

The next few weeks will be busy and exciting; we will host the World Wildlife Fund and a number of other sponsors and local collaborators at the research center for a nursery work shop, horse back eco-tour excursion through the forest and further discussion about defining the first Spiny Forest reserve.

Thank you for your support and please stay tuned for more updates.

4 Comments »

• How / where can I contribute to this?
  thanks
  Lisa

  Comment by lisa — September 20, 2010 @ 1:40 am

• Hei!
  I just saw it’s a 30 pages wonderful article from Madagascar in this month’s issue of National Geographic, September 2010.

  Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — September 22, 2010 @ 9:53 pm

• Photos: New species spins the world’s strongest and largest spider web, wildmadagascar.org: http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0920-spider_madagascar.html

  Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — September 26, 2010 @ 1:14 am

• Crystal-clear river becomes first in Madagascar to wins Ramsar protected status: http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0920-ci_nosivolo.html

  Police in eastern Madagascar arrest foreign journalist investigating illegal timber trafficking: http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0917-madagascar_arrest.html

  Read more news from Madagascar here: http://www.wildmadagascar.org/

  Surely permaculture is desperately needed in this country!

  Comment by Øyvind Holmstad — September 26, 2010 @ 1:19 am

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