My Peace Corps Partnership Project has finally been posted.
https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=684-125
ZAHATRA is a local non-governmental organization operating in Madagascar, a nation that suffers from some of the highest rates of poverty and childhood malnutrition in the world. ZAHATRA means "raft" in Malagasy, and the metaphor is intentional: these families are waiting to cross the river to a better life, they just don't have any way to get there, ZAHATRA is their raft.
ZAHATRA's mission is to ensure that all children have the right to food, education, health and the opportunity for a better life. With support from local government and churches, ZAHATRA's dedicated Malagasy volunteers provide food and school supplies to vulnerable children and offer vocational training and social support to their parents or guardians.
20 children and their families are currently supported by ZAHATRA and are fed in the small home of the director. However there are many more families who are unable to adequately feed their children or send them to school. The organization is unable to assist other families due to a lack of space.
ZAHATRA plans to construct a center equipped with proper dining and lavatory facilities which will allow it to expand its services to 30 children and their families. This crucial intervention will not only restore the health of the children and give them the education they need to break the cycle of poverty, it will restore the dignity of their guardians by providing them with the vocational training, skills and materials they need to earn a living and provide for their children.
Please help this non-profit in my town build this community center.
To make an online tax deductible donation to this project, copy and paste this web address into a new browser
(https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=684-125)
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