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Family Donates Camcorder, Art Supplies
Cousin Carmen just happened to have exactly what I was looking for for our radio: a camcorder!
“Every time we clean the closets, my husband will tell me to get rid of this. We haven’t used it in years, but I refused to throw it out,” says Carmen as she presents me with the camcorder.
I had mentioned to Carmen that we were hoping to raise funds to purchase a camcorder to use in village for making educational films – interviews, news reports, skits, plays, etc. – on the issues affecting our village. This is the first step towards our eventual goal of creating a rural television station alongside the radio, and a means of providing visual educational media to our community during weekly movie nights.
Educational videos are scarce in Madagascar and in the Malagasy language, yet the small collection that we have been showing to kids and adults alike at the radio (on the laptop screens) have been very well received.
It was Jaz, the Reuters correspondent for Madagascar who produced a film about our radio station, who suggested that we turn our frustrations in the lack of educational films into a creative opportunity, and start to make our own! With Carmen’s generous donation, we can start to make that happen!
Carmen also donated several pounds of art supplies: markers, pencils, pens, crayons, chalk, and more! Carmen works for Girl Scouts of Rhode Island, from where she collected the materials.
“I have a closet-full of arts and crafts and educational tools in my office,” she said during our first discussion about project needs in village. “We get way more donations than we have use for, and so much of it just sits there. I’d love to send you home with some things that you could use!”
The donated supplies will be divided between the radio/community center – where we offer a small collection of books as well as kids’ art materials – and the local primary school. Public schools in rural Madagascar generally do not have any such arts and crafts supplies for their students; neither do families have the resources to buy these items for their children.
Thanks to Carmen, we are changing that! All of my love and gratitude to you for helping to improve the opportunities for children in village.
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