Madagascar

A day in Antananarivo where many meetings took place.  Firstly Kathy Lucking from Canada, who had met me the day before, having walked for hours to make this meeting, took me to an organisation which promotes Organic AND BIODYNAMIC Agriculture  where I met Razafimahatratra Rajorosaono, who grows trees e.g. Rosewood and "flamboyante" , then on to meet two young doctors, Ranaivozanany Faliana and Randriamiary Andry Faniry, who have almost completed their Medical Training.  Thereafter we met a Madagascar woman, Vololoniainar Rakotoarivelo, an engineer who works with renewable energy and plays an important role in the school I was about to visit.
We travelled out to this school that Kathy has been supporting for the past ten years.  This is a school out in the rural countryside up into a mountainous and very beautiful part of Madagascar which is striving to become Waldorf. The children walk for about 6 kilometres, over an hour, to school each morning and then home again later.
As we travelled along a somewhat bumpy road past rice paddies and other fields of vegetables, the children walking home from school waved with big smiles in welcome.
I must not forget my meeting with a young man, Felix, from Germany who had just ridden a bicycle from north to south through Madagascar, about 21,000 kilometres.
All this within 24 hours of my arrival.

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            The view of one of the 18 villages who send their children to TENAQUIP SCHOOL

                               
                                                                    MAKING HOUSE

                                                       Another view of vegetable garden

                  The long walk home - up to 6 kilometres one hour to school and home again

  MY STAR WILL ALWAYS SHINE FOR ME COME WHAT MAY IT WILL ALWAYS STAY              AND GUIDE MY WAY LITTLE STARS TWINKLE LITTLE STARS SHINE BUT THE BRIGHTEST STAR IS THE STAR OF MINE  -  HOW THEY SHINE !!!!

                                                                        The rice paddies

                       
                           My arrival at TENAQUIP SCHOOL striving to become WALDORF

                                           
                                           A view of a small part of the vegetable garden