Markt der Möglichkeiten, Schopfheim

Vakoka Vakiteny participated on the market of opportunities in Schopfheim last Sunday. Situated in the old Kulturfabrik (“culture factory”), this Africa bazaar showed a wide range of ways to support Africa where our initiative was one of it. Around 10 associations or projects had built up their stands where they told about their work, showed pictures and sold articles.

The stand of Vakoka Vakiteny contained many different items; Malagasy handicraft, vanilla and canella, t-shirts and information material. It was decorated with many pictures of Malagasy children and we exposed some of our books. People were very interested in our work in Madagascar, so many of them also contributed with donations. We were also interviewed by the free radio channel Kanal Ratte. This interview will be sent on the radio frequency 104.5 (UKW) / 89.35 (cable) this week or on their web page www.kanal-ratte.de.

It was a very pleasurable day and we had many inspiring conversations with people. We want to thank Mrs. Marion Kienzler, cashier of the association “Madagaskar Schul- und Kinderbücher e.V.” in particular for preparing everything for the marked and Dr. Klaus-Christian Küspert for driving us and covering the petrol expenses from east Bayern to Schopfheim and back.

Dance: Mparany as Dangaligny, Tojo as Konaky, and Sophie