Madagascar – summer 2007

Jenny Grove travelled to Madagascar with Transform on one of the summer teams in August 2007.

Jenny was working at the Mandritsara Hospital/HVM (Hopitaly Vaovao Mahafaly – which translates as Good News Hospital), with the Community Health team, who work in partnership with Tearfund, and are responsible for health care and education in the villages within a 100km radius of the hospital.  The hospital itself is run by FFBBM (Association of Bible Baptist Churches of Madagascar) who run a variety of community health and rural development programmes and Christian outreach work.

Watch her video diary here, press the play button to begin:

We asked Jenny to sum up her time in Madagascar:

“Madagascar is physically stunning, and we spent a month tearing around the north of the island in a Landrover.  We were working with the community health team at the good news hospital - the hospitality of everyone we met was jaw-dropping.  We ground corn, we pressed citronella leaves, we weighed babies, we flung concrete at wells, we built walls, we taught children how to use toilets, and sang songs about how amazing it was to be clean.  We became expert at squatting at roadsides.  It was a total privilege to be there and God changed us all.”