Category: Community Development

New Path Community Development MRCI Madagascar Volunteer

Volunteers Build A Path To Help The Community

One of the coolest things about Nosy Komba is the absence of motorised vehicles. While this creates some of the quietest and most peaceful stargazing nights, it also means that locals must travel everywhere on foot. Although there are some paths,...

Volunteer Funds Ampangorina Basketball Team

Volunteer funds Ampangorina’s Basketball teams to take part in Diego’s 2017 Basketball Regionals At the beginning of April a group of 24 young adults from Ampangorina (Ampang); a small village in Nosy Komba, and their coach ventured to Diego Suarez...

MRCI’s Impact on Conservation and Commitment to the Environment

MRCI’s Impact on Conservation and Commitment to the Environment

One of our previous forest conservation volunteers conducted some research on the impact the Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute (MRCI) has on social behaviour towards conservation for her university degree. She asked all volunteers...

Community Volunteers Build A School

Community Volunteers Build A School for Andrekareka Be

At Madagascar Research and Conservation Institute, we are always striving to improve the lives of the people we come into contact with on the island. Our latest project is to build a school. Our community development volunteers, along...

Basketball teams pose together before the community tournament in Nosy Komba.

Volunteers Bring Communities Together With Basketball

Volunteers Bring Communities Together With Basketball in Ampangarina, Nosy Komba, as MRCI’s Community Co-ordinators, Niamh Flynn and Rojo Andofinoana Razafisalama, worked with villagers to restore the old basketball courts. This inspiring project...

Madagascar Volunteer: Volunteers Complete Toilet Block 2

Volunteers Complete Toilet Block 2

Toilet Block 2 in Andrekareka Hely is finished! Well done MRCI staff and volunteers! We are all very excited to announce that Toilet Block 2 in Andrekareka Hely village is finished and up and running, complete with a beautiful paint job! Block 3...

Volunteers Community Projects in Andrekareka Hely

Volunteers Build Toilets in Andrekareka Hely

Volunteers participating in the Teaching & Community program are regularly involved with construction projects to improve the lives of the people living on the island. Despite the incredibly rich plant and animal life, Madagascar is among the...

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