A dedicated micro credit fund for rural Madagascar

In our larger community wide evaluation workshops in November 2025, with a major focus on reforestation, we also had enriching discussions with teachers, students, and the surrounding community on a variety of other topics or other activities: such as raising rabbits, ducks and chicken as local sources of protein and income. (We have covered ducks, rabbits and chicken in prior report and our website).

The biggest innovation for income generation is the new community oven in Fiarenana. The newly built pastry oven is now housed in a converted storage room on the school grounds, giving the building a second life for income generation. It part of the rural university that uses the school and its buildings after the students are gone for the day. 

Tsaramandroso has been using a pastry oven for a few years now to generate income successfully, selling baked goods and taking orders for festivities beyond their community.  

This training aims to improve family income 
Building on Tsaramandroso experience the community in Fiarenana can benefit from their lessons learned, now that we have a second oven for baking on a community level in Fiarenana. Practical training in baking was provided already (and in the future) with simple recipes focusing adapted to local resources available to the community. 

GivingTuesday is coming up: 

GlobalGiving’s 2025 GivingTuesday campaign will last 36 hours, from December 2, 2025, at 00:00:00 EST to December 3, 2025, at 12:00:00 EST. The 2025 GivingTuesday campaign will have an Incentive Fund of $500,000 USD.

The Incentive Fund will be distributed to participants proportionally based on final fundraising totals. This means that, at the end of the campaign, the projects that bring in the most dollars will win the largest portion of the Incentive Fund and every project that activates donors will win something. 

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