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About the video « Madagascar : The beauty and challenges of a Great Island from a Luxembourg perspective »
As part of EDI Madagascar’s Global Citizenship Education workshops, this short film is presented in primary schools across Luxembourg followed by interactive questions-and-answers sessions.
Its objective is to introduce Madagascar’s exceptional biodiversity, the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, and the consequences for vulnerable populations to the targeted Luxemburgish schoolchildren. Thereafter, these children explore the simple, meaningful actions that can be taken on a daily basis to help protecting our planet.
The film highlights the endangered Madagascar’s rich biodiversity and the challenges posed by climate change. It illustrates how local communities are affected—such as through limited access to water—and how they mobilize themselves to protect their environment.
The message is to encouraging the adoption of meaningful behaviour in order to reflect on the shared responsibility of each of us and on the small but impactful gestures that contribute to preserve the Earth.
Enfants Défavorisés de l’Île de Madagascar (E.D.I. Madagascar) is a Luxembourg-based non-profit organization founded in 2015, officially recognized as a Development NGO (ONGD).
Our mission is to support vulnerable children and families in Madagascar. Based on the principle that every child has the right to a quality education, we ensure that our projects improve the education and living conditions of those children and their families.
The NGO ensures that the impacts of its projects will be sustained once its presence ends : to that end, we provide training to beneficiaries and set up with them income-generating activities.
We focus in the eastern region of Madagascar, particularly in remote rural areas.
Key Projects and Actions in Madagascar led by E.D.I. Madagascar so far :
Throughout its 10 years of existence, the NGO carried out projects that include :
· Improvement of teachers skills;
· Modernisation of school furniture;
· Construction of new schools with integrated educational gardens and farms, with in one case an additional health clinic for children and their families;
· Environmental education and reforestation program, including the creation and management of nurseries and awareness-raising activities on environment, including construction of water-wells;
· Implementation of 6 school canteens, supported by communities’gardens, farms and income-generating activities to ensure long-term sustainability;
· Electrification of primary schools with photovoltaic panels combined with improvement of educational materials (computers, screens, access to databases etc.);
· Support, guidance and professionnalisation to help young single mothers becoming self-reliant.
Actions in Luxemburg :
In addition to its development projects in Madagascar, E.D.I. Madagascar also conducts Global Citizenship Education activities in Luxembourg. For the last 3 years, economic development and environment awareness activities were conducted in dozens of Luxembourg schools, with a focus on the case of Madagascar.
We align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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