Category: Community Development

We are all Volunteers Life in the village means living as part of a very inter-connected community. Everyone helps everyone; that is just part of life here. Volunteers rebuild schools with teachers’ help when needed, as was the case recently in...

Author: Emily Borth12 February 2018 Cyclone Enawo slammed into the northeast coast of Madagascar on the 7th of March 2017 with the power of a category four hurricane, boasting wind gusts up to 270 kilometers per hour. 1 Situated on the northwestern...

MRCI & Learn Achieve Become Partner For a Great Cause MRCI teamed up with Learn Achieve Become to put on an event focused on women’s rights. Open to all genders and English levels, we raised money to transport people from the island of Nosy...

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,...

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...

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...

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...