By Markus Faigle | Volunteer Project Director
This post rice harvest season we will do a micro credit project with rice, once again. It is based on the successful philosophy of the rice seed bank of years earlier. But this time we do it with the association of parents from the school in Fiarenana only. The goal of this project is to raise funds to maintain their school with the profits. This way the community gets empowered to support their school financially, without draining hard-earned harvest money from the parents.
The teachers in both schools have approached us as well to do a rice microcredit project with them. This will need some more meetings and clarification, especially if they envision this and a “private” enterprise, or a contract with them individually. We are very inclined to work with them, since out teachers are important opinion leaders in the community.
We decided to not re-launch the same project in Fiadanana again, based on our past experiences. The group in Fiadanana did not keep to the contract we had all signed. We think the best way to illustrate that there are consequences is to show them that we do continue to work with the people that do keep to their contract.
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