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VE.KI.FA The Association for Children of Djangoa

The VE.KI.FA stands for Vehivavy Kintan'ny Fampandrosoana , it means Stars Women for Development.
It 's a young association of public benefit non-profit organization, founded in Madagascar at the initiative of a group of women from the rural community of Djangoa that, conscious of their social unease, are working effectively in the promotion of the projects' education, training, health education and job placement.
Since September 2008 the Association has opened a nursery named "Mamiko": two structures of wood and local materials. Currently 55 children are enrolled, followed by two teachers and an assistant. A
Djangoa there is also a public elementary school, but classes are overcrowded by an unreasonable number of children is often 80 to 100 students per teacher.
The overcrowding creates the invisibility of many children in school and often go away without teachers noticing causing distrust of formal education for the parents that the child feel responsible for a crime.
The "Mamiko" is proposed to provide support to the operation of the nursery "Mamiko" already exists and create a new structure for the elementary school in three years. Children are thus a place of care, socialization and training to develop their potential cognitive, emotional and social support for families with particular attention to one-parent families and facilitating women's access to employment and promoting the reconciliation of work activities and education of children. For info
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PROJECT Construction of nursery school in the village of Mamiko Djangoa "

Djangoa The village is located in the rural area of \u200b\u200bAmbanja in the north of Madagascar in front of Nosy Be. E 'a capital of more than 10 scattered and isolated villages whose population exceeds 15,000 people. Half of the population are women and about 44% of them are under 15 years. 50% of the population works in the field of traditional fisheries, 49% live in agriculture and only 1% work in the tertiary sector. In essence, only 1% of the population had a monthly salary. BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROJECT

of the project are single mothers and women of the community of Ambanja. The illiteracy rate is very high and the situation of women is very hard, even for the traditional costumes that give it a marginal role. Many are in the position of having to provide for their families alone, a situation created by the abandonment by her husband, by his death or by the many cases of early pregnancy in girls. Moreover, most rural women are illiterate and unaware of their rights. Finally, the pregnancy has become a social phenomenon very worrying at a girls school ABSENCE heavy losses in the use of contraceptive methods. ITALIAN AND FOREIGN PARTNER

Tetezana Onlus Association of Rome and the Association of VE.KI.FA Djangoa. Contact Genevieve Soaritony. The project is sponsored by the city of Terni.

PROJECT COST The total cost amounts to approximately € 33,000.00. OBJECTIVE

The project aims to help women of the village, meeting the needs of the post allowing single mothers and women in general to work and not just leave the small children. Most women do not have a real job, but other activities such as fishing for shrimp by hand, harvest the sea cucumber, smoked fish, vemndere traditional sweets, cultivate vegetables or riso.Di Hence the need to create a structure to house and care for children when mothers are away for work, without having to leave the house unattended.