Random pics from field trip to Manajary

One of the districts ADRA is implementing the disaster preparedness program is Mananjary (prounounced MAN-AN-ZAR-Y) on the southeast coast of the island. My first week here, I joined the project's disaster management specialist in the field. We visited several communes and villages in the area to ascertain what type of disaster preparedness and mitigation system they had in place. Not surprisingly, many of these rural villages had nothing whatsoever.

Here are some pictures of the trip:


One of the towns we stopped at during our 6 hour journey to Mananjary. The landscape is quite different here than in Ambositra. Ambositra is in the central highlands and is a little colder. As we come down from the highlands, you can see the landscape turn much more tropical


People in this town.


A view of the Indian Ocean from Mananjary.


Downtown Mananjary


More downtown Mananjary



The road we took to get to one of the more remote villages. It took us an hour and a half to go 10 miles on this road.


Some children watching a game of pick-up soccer in on of the villages




Vohilava - One of the villages covered in our program.


Hangin' out on the jungle gym...


Dugout canoe


Laundromat


A road we were supposed to take to one of our villages. Obviously it is washed out and we couldn't cross.


Local cattle farmer we passed on our way to Vohilava