Archive for Madagascar
Mayotte crushed…
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Comores, cyclone, France, immigration, Indian Ocean, La Réunion, Madagascar, Mayotte, New Caledonia, shanty towns, typhoon on December 19, 2024 by xi'an
Mappamondo di Fra Mauro [jatp]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian conference, Doges' Palace, exploration, Fra Mauro's map, ISBA 2024, Italy, Japan, jatp, Korea, Madagascar, maps, Marco Polo, Museo Correr, Republic of Venice, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venezia on July 19, 2024 by xi'an
When (re)visiting the Doges’ Palace in Venice yesterday, and its window into the working of the Venetian Republic, we came upon a temporary exhibition on the journey of Marco Polo, which was great (and little attended). It included a reproduction of Fra Mauro’s map, made in 1452 in Venice, for the Government of the Republic and built on many sources including Marco Polo’s memoirs, Le Devisement du monde written in 1298 in franco-italian. (The original sits next door in Museo Correr.) The level of detail is mesmerizing and we spent quite a while seeking known places (with the Italian spelling at the time). It covers a lot of places from South-East Asia, including Japan, Korea, and Sri Lanka, as well as Madagascar. The exhibition as a whole is certainly worth the (few euros and the) trip from Ca’ Foscari if attending ISBA 2024.
pictures at an exhibition
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags humanitarian projects, Mada Tsatsaka, MadaClinics, Madagascar, medical school, NGO, plague, USAid on November 25, 2017 by xi'an
Last weekend we went to a local cultural centre to check on the exhibit of pictures from Madagascar our daughter and her friends had set to a month, following their humanitarian trip there last summer that was supported in part by the town council. While we had already seem these pictures, it was nice to see them in perspective. Hopefully inducing more volunteers to spend time in this particularly poor country, facing a silent humanitarian crisis. Including numerous cases of pneumonic plague… Donations can be made to MadaClinics, the NGO supporting medical rural centres. (USAid also has a program specifically aimed at Madagascar.)
World Contraception Day [donations]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags contraception, MadaClinics, Madagascar, WCD 2017, World Contraception Day on September 27, 2017 by xi'an
As today, September 26, is World Contraception Day, as contraception is under threat, even in some supposedly developed countries, and as my daughter, back from a medical internship this summer at a dispensary at Maventibao in rural northern Madagascar, reported treating a high number of sexually transmitted diseases, here is a call for donations to MadaClinics, the NGO supporting such medical rural centres.
humanitarian project in Madagascar
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags amazon associates, budget, Evadeh, humanitarian projects, Mada Tsatsaka, Madagascar, medical school, support, tsatsaka, Université Paris-Sud on March 15, 2017 by xi'an
As the budget of the humanitarian trip to Madagascar our daughter organises with other students of the Paris-Sud Medical School next summer is still short of several thousand euros, I repost the call for support I made a few months ago.
Their project is called Mada Tsatsaka, mada for Madagascar and tsatsaka for a local lizard. The team plans to bring basic drugs and educational material and to work in a dispensary, an orphanage, as well as a shelter for women victims of violence. (More below!)
I thus bring this project to the ‘Og’s readers’ attention in case they wish to support. The best approach is use this web site for donations (in English) to Evadeh Mada Tsatsaka. (Evadeh is the mother association for all humanitarian projects in the medical school.) A free-of-charge (!) alternative is to shop on amazon.com following this associate link as I vouch to transfer all my associate gains in the next four months to the project.
Upon request, more details on the project:
- 2 weeks in Maventibao working in a clinic : Mada Clinics, helping two nurses with free medical examinations and providing extra medical equipment and drugs. And also helping with drinking water improvement. The team further hopes to help with the purchase of a car associated with the clinic and linking with the hospital in Diego (4h away) and with hiring a doctor in the nearby clinic of Amboangamamy.
- 2 weeks in an orphanage in Antananarivo, Ankanifitahiana, in collaboration with BLOC Léo Madagascar, helping in financing and installing a library and a music room, and participating in classes and games with the children. Depending on the funding, the team would also like to help with installing a solar oven.
