By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
To celebrate the beginning of the new school year all students got soup in their classroom. A lot has changed, since we first started offering soup or food for our students (e.g. 2011). Zahana initially paid for the school food, now the ingredients are provided (mostly) by the community, to the extend they can afford it.
The teacher apologized to the visiting team, explaining that due the current season no vegetables are available to be added to the soup. Even moringa goes dormant this time of the year, and does not produce many leaves. He was quick to point out that in this year’s curriculum each student will each plant five moringa trees in the schoolyard and tend to the seedlings, to make sure each tree grow as well as possible. Moringa leaves in the soup is becoming a staple for many families and growing more, to support this habit, is always advantageous.
In our school in Fiarenana you need back to school supplies, too. Each student received pencils, a ball pen and notebooks from Zahana, to start the school year fully equipped and ready to study. We were also able to secure some donated schoolbooks in French, as requested by the teacher.
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