📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
GREENLION MADAGASCAR
💼 What the programme involves
Program Description
The kids at the children are right at the start of their school careers and the chance to start learning English since such an early age will prove invaluable for them further on. Like in kindergartens throughout the world, the teaching is informal as the children will want to play with you more than be ‘taught'. However, just by getting them enthused about coming to school, giving them some very Basic English phrases such as simple greetings, you will may well have sown the seeds of a lifelong learning habit. The children will all be excited to see you and exceptionally welcoming, due partly to the natural and genuine friendliness of the people of these villages but also the fact that you will be one of a few foreigners they have met! Up Close!
Aims & Objectives
The aims & objectives is to help the kids grow in their confidence and learn better English which will help them in many ways in the future as well as creating a global community towards a preferred future.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Standard Accommodation You will be accommodated in rooms that can allocate 4-6 people based on a single-gender basis and you will be sharing the bathroom with your roommates. In our center, there is a mini library, a dining room, a lounge area where you can hang out with fellow participants and a beautiful garden to relax. Furthermore, there is a refrigerator which you are welcome to use to store food and beverages. Safety lockers are available. Wi-Fi is available throughout the centre, whilst it's generally stable, it may be slow and irregular at times. Villages of Antantafondro, Ambalahonko & Doany, just have solar lightin Food arrangements You will be provided with three meals a day on weekdays and two meals per day on weekends. The meals are a mix of Western and Malagasy food, consisting mainly of vegetarian dishes including rice and vegetables. You can expect to have a chicken dish about twice per week. You can also use the kitchen facilities to cook for yourself or eat out at any of the local restaurants.
📍 About the location
Location
Mahajanga is located in the region of Atsimo-Andrefana and is also the regional capital of this region. Atsimo-Andrefana capital Toliara (Toliara) is approximately 891 km away from Mahajanga. The distance from Mahajanga to Madagascar”™s capital Antananarivo (Antananarivo) is approximately 377 km.
Mahajanga is a town and major port in Madagascar island's northwest coast, at the mouth of the Betsiboka River, whose estuary extends into Bombetoka Bay. The town was the capital of the 18th-century kingdom of Boina. The French occupied Mahajanga in 1895 at the beginning of their conquest of Madagascar. The town's old sector is confined mainly to the harbour quarter and has some 19th-century Arabian houses. The town's modern buildings include a Roman Catholic cathedral, a Protestant meeting place, and a mosque. Immigrants from Comoros were almost as numerous in the town as the Malagasy until 197677, when most of the former were repatriated to Comoros following riots in Mahajanga. The Comorien population has increased again, and the town also has a substantial Indian merchant population. Fishing, cattle raising, and hardwood lumbering are important in the surrounding area, and coffee, rice, sugarcane, cashew nuts, cassava, cotton, and raffia palms are cultivated.
ℹ️ Additional information
Open all year, see starting dates in requirement, participation fee 210€ per week.