Hi Friend, Happy New Year from SEED Madagascar! 🎉

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Subject: Hi Friend, Happy New Year from SEED Madagascar! 🎉

Hi Friend,

Our thoughts this month have been with the communities in southern Madagascar where the rains have not appeared, intensifying the drought and people’s fears for the upcoming planting and harvesting season. On top of the economic impact of COVID-19 felt throughout last year, these factors have made a bad situation critical. In response to this increasingly desperate situation, we launched our Food Distribution Appeal, commenced our work with sakondry, and extended our partnership with UNICEF. At the same time, our normal work continues and school-building in Vatambe is only weeks away from being ready for children to use!

A difficult January has been made a lot easier by the continued support of the SEED community. From your likes and follows on our social media pages, to your thoughtful donations, to your purchases of Stitch Sainte Luce products, we sincerely appreciate all of your efforts to help us make 2021 a better year. Thank you! 🧡

Food Distribution Appeal

We have launched an Emergency Food Distribution Appeal to, over the next six months, work in rural health clinics to support children and their families who have been impacted by the critical food shortages. Through our work with UNICEF and the British Embassy, we are already working with the staff and community workers in some of the worst-affected villages. From next month we will be working together to quickly identify children suffering from acute malnutrition, in order to provide them and their families with food parcels. For those children already so malnourished that rural clinics can no longer support them, we will be providing the money for transport and food so they can get the care they need at the nearest hospital in Fort Dauphin.

A big thank you to those of you who have already supported our appeal! ⭐ If you are still looking to help...

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Project Sakondry A.K.A. Project Bacon Bug 🥓

As well as our immediate response to severe food shortages in the Anosy region, we wanted to explore long-term approaches to food insecurity mitigation. As part of a larger project funded by The Darwin Initiative, Project Sakondry— together with conservation biologist Dr. Cortni Borgerson— will support local communities in Anosy to farm sakondry, a native planthopper. These bugs proved tricky to find at first, but they were no match for the SEED team who quickly found them in the bean plants they live on in Sainte Luce. This was a real ‘a-ha!’ moment as the insects are high in protein, (as well as bacon-flavoured, which is always a bonus!), which means that they could play a critical role in improving food security in the Anosy region.

Stay tuned for updates

Schools, glorious schools! 📚📝

For everything that the remote mountain village of Vatambe had in beauty, it certainly provided the team with an equal amount of logistical challenges! The village was difficult to get to along narrow sand tracks and the team had to rebuild one of the bridges just to get themselves and their supplies on-site. Once there however, they made fast work of building the new Primary School classrooms, which are due to be finished and ready for lessons in just a few weeks time! As well as classrooms, we are constructing two hand-washing stations, a menstrual hygiene management facility, and a rainwater harvesting system which we hope will help to create a positive and safe space for all 232, 3-15 year old students to learn in.

Special thanks to The State of Guernsey Overseas Aid and Development Commission, Teneo and Conscious House London for providing the funding to make this happen! 🙌

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Subject: Hi Friend, Happy New Year from SEED Madagascar! 🎉

Food Distribution Appeal

Project Sakondry A.K.A. Project Bacon Bug 🥓

Schools, glorious schools! 📚📝

Find us on social media