St. Joseph Angododina Primary School
inauguration: March 20, 2024 🎉
Thanks to Adsum Foundation for financing this project ❤️
📍Location: The village of Angododina,
Rural commune of Anosiala,
District of Ambohidratrimo,
Analamanga Region.
💡Objectives:
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To improve access to primary education and increase capacity
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To improve teaching/studying conditions
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To contribute to the alleviation of poverty
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To provide a healthier working/studying environment; to motivate the teachers, and give the pupils a greater sense of wellbeing
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Built by Ghyslain RAKOTOBE's team.
Cost
1/ Three Classroom buildings: Ariary 109,692,020 (£ 21, 938)
2/ Classroom furniture; 30 locally made school benches,2 teachers’ desks and chairs; bookshelves and cupboards;
Pre-school furniture; 32 locally made small chairs; 8 small tables and 1 teachers’ desk and chair ; bookshelf and cupboard and educational toys: Ariary 15,637,930 (£ 3,128)
3/ Latrines; Three compartments with boys’urinals: Ariary 9,070,050 (£ 1,814)
TOTAL GRANT REQUESTED: Ariary 134,400,000 (£ 26,880)
BRIEF PROJECT OUTLINE:
Rationale:
Saint Joseph Primary School was built by St Joseph Catholic church in 2003 in the same compound as the church. The school consists of 4 classrooms, currently has 130 registered pupils and is located in the noisy and polluted centre of the densely populated village.
The pupils are regularly distracted by loud music, and the hustle and bustle of villagers going about their daily activities. They are also disturbed by the foul smells coming from the latrines of neighbouring houses which become intolerable during the hot, dry season.
The school buildings are now in very poor conditions. The roofs leak badly and the classrooms are regularly flooded during the rainy season. In 2018, due to high humidity, part of the school collapsed, and was repaired by the villagers who drew on their own meagre resources. Nevertheless, fearful for their children’s safety, many parents transferred their children to another private school, even though the fees there are higher (but still affordable) compared to St Joseph’s.
Due to the lack of capacity, grades 1 and 2 are taught in the same classroom and grades 3 and 4 share another classroom. But this is an additional distraction, potentially reducing the teachers’ effectiveness and the quality of their teaching. Only the preschool and grade 5 have their own classrooms.
The school yard is very small so all sport and physical activities take place on a large piece of land owned by the church on the outskirts of the village. It is on this land that the proposed new school will be built. Two wells were recently dug on this land to provide the children with safe, clean water to drink and for hand washing after the new school is built.
Despite the poor conditions at St Joseph Angodonina and a shortage of classroom furniture and teaching materials, the children are intelligent and receive a good education. The annual Certificate of Primary Education exam results in 2020 and 2021 were 100%, and 98% in 2022.