Project Name

Ranomafana

Helping beneficiaries

Madagascar’s educational outcomes remain very poor, with primary school completion rates at just five out of ten. Insufficient educational infrastructure is a symptom of the country’s severe underdevelopment; there are simply not enough classrooms in Madagascar to accommodate all children. School sanitation infrastructure across Madagascar is also often non-existent or insufficient to meet basic sanitary needs. With 52% of the rural population practicing open defecation, as many as 6,900 Malagasy children die each year of diarrheal diseases. In order to promote long-term improvement of WASH practices, all teachers at both Ranomafana Lycée and CEG will be provided with WASH education training, enabling them to deliver five 30-minute interactive lessons on WASH principles to all of their students.