AKIBA

« Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world » 

Maria Montessori

Our project concerns the opening of a third classroom in AKIBA. The objective is to allow children to access to a proper education by studying in good conditions. In order to do so we need to build furniture as tables, chairs, and shelfs but we need to electrify the classroom.

Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, so education is the one way to make this change. This would help populations to improve their quality of life and to make them more conscious about their environment and about the current global issues.

AKIBA, heritage in Malagasy, is an association, which promotes and support sustainable activities link to education and nature in Nosy Komba.

Located in the middle of the rainforest, its values ​​are the sharing of knowledge, openness to the world and the protection of the environment.

In this circumstances, a “bush” school welcome 30 students split in 2 classes, from key stage 2 and 3.

Faced with the growing demand of parents to send their children to AKIBA, a third class has recently been built. We strive to ensure that children benefit from a complete education and work in good conditions, to do this we need furniture and teaching materials.

Your help would allow 15 children to access a good quality education. This new classroom is also an opportunity for the older students enter secondary school. The opening of a new class requires an additional salary, being a small association, a boost to start us would be necessary before being able to sustain this project in the long run.

After having being a trekking guide during 15 years at La Réunion and sailing to the winds around the Malagasy’s coasts, Jérôme Miquel has unpacked his suitcases in Nosy Komba’s mountains, native land of his wife, of Vitae Soa.

 

Facing the potential of the location, in 2015 he decided to found an association called AKIBA.

 

AKIBA, meaning heritage in Malagasy, is an association, which promotes and supports sustainable activities link to education and nature in Nosy Komba.

Located on the heights of the island, in the middle of the tropical forest, its values ​​are the sharing of knowledge, openness to the world and the protection of the environment.

 

AKIBA is involve in three projects:

 

Education: A “bush” school hosting 30 students divided into 2 classes, whose activities of awakening are centered on nature… and soon, with your help, a third one!

 

Agriculture:  A farm where the local population cultivate fruits, and vegetables. Farm’s products grew by a mix of tradition and agro-ecologic innovations.

 

Environmental protection: preservation of the local fauna and flora, endemic species plantations, support of environmental issues. 

 

Support and help can be brought through subventions or skills: donation, membership, child’s sponsorship, volunteering, and tourism.

The crowdfunding will be used to purchase the equipment to build furniture (tables, chairs, shelves and electrical equipment) dedicated to the new class. Every thing will be build on site by volunteers, and workers of the association.

 

Jamaafunding’s fee =  7%

 

• Veneer: To build tables, the teacher’s office and the blackboard.
• Rafters: To realize the structure of the table, the feet and the blackboard.
• Wood boards: To realize the tables’ structures.
• Paints and brushes: To paint the class.
• Electrical equipment: To electrify the school

Products	Quantity	Unit price	Total
Veneer	3	53 000AR 54 000AR	160 000AR
Wood boards	25	20 000AR	500 000AR
Rafters	5	20 000AR	100 000AR
Paint pots1kg + Brushes	6	15 000AR	90 000AR
Slate pots 1kg	1	15 000AR	15 000AR
Electric cables	50m	6000AR	300 000AR
Light bulbe	4	5000AR	20 000AR
Various electrical equipment (sockets, joints)	-	-	100 000AR