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Madagascar Volunteering in Madagascar

Volunteering in Madagascar: Market Day in Mahitsy

By on September 25, 2015

To market, to market to buy a fat pig… Or maybe just have someone push past you and rub a dead one against you…

…Home again, home again, dancing a jig……


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Madagascar Volunteering in Madagascar

Volunteering in Madagascar: Back to Basics in Ambohitrakely

By on September 25, 2015

On the level below me there is a library. On the level above me there is a small family… And their chicken.

I don’t think the family (or the chicken)…


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Madagascar Volunteering in Madagascar

Volunteering in Madagascar: The First Few Days

By on September 25, 2015

My first impression and thoughts in rural Madagascar? I am far too vertically gifted to maintain any form of inconspicuous in a third world village…

I woke up to the sound of…


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Madagascar Volunteering in Madagascar

Volunteering in Madagascar: The Bookfeeding Project

By on September 15, 2015

Some of you may have noticed that I am currently living in a pretty rural Madagascan village… Before I start writing about my impressions and time in Ambohitrakely, I…


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Madagascar Volunteering in Madagascar

Volunteering in Madagascar: My First Taxi-Brousse and Arriving in Ambohitrakely

By on September 15, 2015

Before I left on this adventure I had decided to extend my time in Madagascar to try and experience life in one of the poorest countries in the world…