A personal travelogue from Madagascar: author Antonia Michaelis provides insights into her social school project and talks about education, democracy, agriculture and new perspectives.

On Friday, 2 October 2026, we invite you to an open evening at 7 pm in the parish hall of the Bugenhagengemeinde Wieck (Pfarrhaus, Kirchstraße 30). The author Antonia Michaelis will be our guest and will tell us about her aid project in Madagascar.

Madagascar is one of the five poorest countries in the world and a climate change loser. Children rarely go to school, die of measles or typhoid and are malnourished. In 2025, the young generation deposed the corrupt, ultra-rich president. The future is uncertain - but full of hope.

In 2019, Antonia Michaelis began working with a team of wonderful people to set up a social school project there. There are now two locations, sustainable agriculture, training workshops, democratic student elections, two children's houses, a boarding school, an aid programme for students and lots of colourful stories, e.g. about the shooting of the new children's film that will begin in summer 2026 with German and Malagasy children ...

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