Talking about sustainable environment, education and development in southeast Madagascar. New articles every week from our team!
Successfully adapting Project Safidy's capacity building activities to use remote tools in the face of the pandemic, and the value of this in Madagascar.
Chance conversations with SEED's construction team building a school in the rural community of Mananara II lead to a surprising discovery about just how isolated it is, and what we need to do to help.
Our SRHR education specialist for Project Safidy, Poppy Vernon, shares why she thinks Safidy is so important and valuable to young people in Madagascar.
This Menstrual Hygiene Day, we reflect on SEED’s efforts to support menstrual hygiene management, and in particular our use of education to promote better hygiene practices and empower women and girls with knowledge of their bodies and rights.
Project Safidy has recently undertaken research into the important ongoing role of parents in sexual and reproductive health and rights education. Find out more in this blog!
Project Development Officer for Community Health, Kirsty Solomons, looks at the various health and WASH projects SEED is carrying out in Madagascar, the challenges, and successes.
As Phase I of Project Mitao comes to a close, our Community Health team reflect on the findings from the research and round table forums with stakeholders.
Following five years as a key member of the Community Health team, we put the spotlight on Gerard to talk about his time at SEED and Project Votsira.
Project Safidy recently hosted it's second national Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference in Antananarivo. Over 120 people representing 50 organisations and ministries attended, discussing stigma and discrimination, strategies for effective advocacy and SRHR as a lever for development amongst other topics. Attendees also discussed the ongoing development of an SRHR network, which will enable increased collaboration towards mutual SRHR goals in Madagascar.
President Rajoelina recently announced that condoms will no longer be subject to government tax. However, "making condoms cheaper, or even free, will not solve the problems of STIs and risky sex." Find out more in our latest blog.