Let a student work their way to their dreams - and pay forward the opportunity to many others
“I come from a small and remote village in the region of Ambatondrazaka where people grow rice, mangos, sweet potatoes and avocados. Only a few hundred people live there. I had a happy carefree childhood. I used to live with grandmother who gave me a lot of freedom. I liked playing in the fields. My […]
I am 22 years old and I come from Antokazo, a remote village in the district of Ambatondrazaka. My village doesn’t have a market and no cars can go there. So we have to walk for 2 hours to visit the market. I liked living in Antokazo as a child. It is very beautiful. I […]
Nineteen-year-old Jerome is a lively young man from a village not too far from Mahanoro. When he was invited by Onja to do an entrance test, he didn´t have high expectations. Instead, he considered it good practise for the middle school exam he was soon going to have. But he turned out to be a […]
Synthia comes from Andromba, a farming village in the region of Ambatondrazaka, famous for it’s rice production. She looks back on a difficult childhood, because when she was four, her father was accused of theft and sent to jail for 5 years. He didn’t do it, though. He was mixed up with someone with the […]
Kathy is a farmers’ daughter from Kelilanina, a beautiful village close to Ranomafana, one of Madagascar’s most famous nature reserves. Apart from farming, her parents run a little shop, where they sell bread, cakes and coffee. It makes their house one of the central meeting points in the village, where people gather and exchange news. […]
Natacha is 21 years old. She is a quiet and determined young woman who is very happy with the opportunity to study at Onja. If she hadn’t been selected, she thinks her life would be very different. She reckons she would go from job to job, maybe in different towns, trying to save money to […]
