Climate Action Madagascar Project #43503

Improved cookstoves prevent deforestation

by Zahana

Improved cookstoves prevent deforestation

Project Report | Oct 24, 2020
Did you wash your hands today?

By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director

How to wash hands in our schools in Madagascar

Washing hands, has, is, and will be an excellent public health strategy. Low cost and highly effective it is by far the easiest COVID-19 prevention measure to wash hands often - with soap. With soap, because it destroys the lipid membrane of this virus or SARS-CoV-2.

‘Did you wash your hands?’ is the mantra we all heard, or may have said ourselves a gazillion times. But this is much easier said than done, literally, even if you have running warm water and plenty soap in your bathroom(s).

But what do you do if you have neither running water nor soap? For billions, yes with a B, of humans on our planet this is a reality.

But where there is a will, there is a way. At our last site visit we were joined by a doctor friend from the Ministry of Health. She used her standing to talk to all the school children (and many bystanders) about the importance on how to correctly wash your hands with soap. As you can see in the video, you can use the container with the spigot provided by zahana, or a good old bucket, in this case a new green one, with a cup. (Please click on the YouTube link for the video).

Ps: Both of our schools have access to safe clean drinking water. Fiarenana with a well and Fiadanana with a faucet that is part of our clean safe water system. A 'personal' bar of soap for each student was provided at the visit as well (see website).

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Oct 6, 2020
When children make toy improved cookstoves

By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director

Jul 27, 2020
Reforestation & locally made improved cookstoves

By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director

Improved cookstove fired with twigs not wood

Why does the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York show the Zahana video Combining reforestation with locally made improved cook stoves in Madagascar?

We live in an interconnected world and the Seneca Park zoo is a supporter of our reforestation efforts. A zoo involved in reforestation in Madagascar you may wonder? Think lemurs. Which kid (or adult) in a zoo does not make a b-line to the Lemurs? Lemurs need trees in their habitat, if they are to survive in the wild. The zoo supports another incredible innovative reforestation project next to a national park, because zoos are major players in conservation efforts world-wide, as we learned through this relationship.

Seneca Park Zoo’s goal is to support the reforestation efforts of other Malagasy NGOs like Zahana as well. They generously included us as recipients in their annual Madagascar event for the first time in 2019. During a site visit to their reforestation project in Madagascar, they had to chance to meet our founder Dr. Ihanta in person in 2019.

But that was then, when one still took airplanes and traveled internationally.

This is now. ‘Now’ did not stop the Seneca Park Zoo to set up a virtual fundraiser: Party Mad(agascar) 2020 (now its 17th year). With many of us working from home, it is actually easier to join a fundraiser via zoom, thousands of miles away in upstate New York, than around the corner.

The zoo invited us to create a five-minute video to present Zahana to the audience. Short videos introduced the different NGOs, followed by live question and answer during ‘Party Mad 2020‘. We hope you enjoy this five-minute video Combining reforestation with locally made improved cook stoves in Madagascar. It is a good 2020 Zahana snapshot, which includes drone footage from the village in October 2019.

PS: We also added a short one-minute video Reforestation with Moringa in Madagascar by Zahana

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