The school day begins with a bowl of milk.
The Project - Stage 4.3
The Project - Stage 4.3
Since mid-November 2011, the last structural measures - up to that point - were completed
The school has been running smoothly for 2 years, the aim of our trip from the end of November to mid-December 2011 was to now also put the school canteen into operation.
We brought cutlery and kitchen utensils from Germany, We bought the customary, large -50 l cast iron boilers from a local foundry.
Father Pedro (www.paterpedro.de) had given us permission to take Sister Isabel, the director of the school canteens of "Akamasoa", and she not only received permission from her superior, (Les Filles de la Charité de St. Vincent de Paul) no, she offered also to be there to support the start-up of the canteen.
The number of children in this school year has grown beyond the actual capacity of the school from 100 to now 108 children -
of 46 children 2 years earlier.
All children were provided with new school clothes –
instead of the usual white-light-blue-dark blue color scheme in khaki and red.
7 students are preparing to take the CEPE (Certificat d'Etudes Primaire Elementaire) exam for admission to
a secondary school (college). We have offered a bonus for the teachers if all the students pass the exam.
After a “training day” with the sisters Isabel and Martha, real operations began on the second day.
Sister Isabel and Sister Martha playfully taught the children the necessary strict drill of washing hands, sitting down in an orderly manner at the tables, serving plates, eating cleanly, arranging plates and removing them.
A number of things have emerged from practice that still need to be improved - the refectory, previously an open hall, needs to be protected from rain, light-permeable walls, the storage rooms need additional ventilation, the space capacity needs to be increased by installing another table be expanded with benches. The orders for this have been placed and the work will be carried out during the Christmas holidays.
The sophisticated ecosystem also includes the pigs that use the leftovers from the kitchen.
Completing the necessary bureaucratic formalities was far more difficult than organizing the processes in the canteen itself. Employment contracts with the cooks, registration for health insurance, accident insurance and pension insurance, agreements with those responsible for the logistics of the canteen, procurement and contracts for future ones Procurement of the groceries, and finally the establishment of a bank account for the settlement of the current payment obligations.
The school project EPPC Ambalafenomby has changed the village:
- all children have the opportunity to go to school and thus hope for a better, self-determined future
- all children get enough to eat for the first time - hunger is conquered
– the quality of life in the village has been improved many times over thanks to the built water supply
You have to make changes, not just want them!!!