10th December 2011: Jessica Hull (and Mr & Mrs Hull) is our star of the week, instrumental in organizing the Waitrose bag packing and helping out all night at Romford Ice Rink. We think that we have raised around £800 this week. Well done!
November 27th: Well done to Georgina Homes who has raised £750 from the charity walk from Bow to Upminster- an outstanding achievement!
November 2011: We have just past the £10,000 mark- well done to all of you who are really pushing the cause this term!!!
September 2011: Abseil money pouring in- well done to Albert Varney and Lucy Morris who have both raised over £700 in sponsorship.
June 2011: Congratulations to Lauren McMunn who secured a £350 cheque from a local business.
Film Quiz Poster
Fundraising News
April 2011: Congratulations to Emily M-H who has secured a £500 grant for the building project from the clothes store Next.
March 2011: Buy a raffle ticket for the big Easter egg raffle- see posters around school
March 2011: Ideas pouring in to the team leaders, but we are awaiting our next money maker! You will hear it here first!
Feb 2011: Over £200 raised by the team selling donuts and roses on valentines day- well done to all of you who worked so hard to raise the money.
Please email pch@cooperscoborn.co.uk if you would like to donate towards the project or help organise a fundraising event/idea.
Why Madagascar?
We are currently in the process of raising £20,000 to fund a new secondary school block and a reforestation project in the village of Andranosoa, 15miles to the East of the capital Antananarivo.
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, as can be seen in the data and information below.
Madagascar Development Data
Population: 20 million
GNP Per Capita: $260
Urban Population: 30%
Religions: Traditional beliefs - 52% Christian - 41% Muslim - 7%
Population Growth Rate: 3.03%
Life Expectancy: 56.1 years
Infant Mortality: 80 per 1,000 live births
Under Five Mortality: 136 per 1,000 live births
Maternal Mortality Rate: 490 per 100,000 live births
Percentage of Literate Adult Males: 76%
Percentage of Literate Adult Females: 63%
Percentage Population With Access to Safe Drinking Water: 47%
Over three-quarters of Madagascar’s 20 million inhabitants live in rural areas. Seventy-two percent of Malagasy people live on less than $1 per day. Madagascar is emerging from a prolonged political dispute. This political crisis devastated the economy, further strained one of the world's top three "biodiversity hotspots," and disrupted an already weak health care system. The political crisis further worsened people's well being. In addition, during the eight-month crisis, illegal exporting of endangered species occurred. Such actions threaten long-term prospects for sustainable development in Madagascar, given the uniqueness of Madagascar's flora and fauna. Madagascar’s primary source of income is agriculture, a sector that employs eighty-eight percent of workers. While fifty percent of land is arable, less than ten percent is cultivated, due to lack of roads and irrigation infrastructure, credit and marketing, and farm equipment. Food crops of Madagascar are rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and groundnuts. Cash crops include coffee, vanilla, cloves, sugarcane, cotton, cocoa and sisal. Madagascar is renowned for its biological diversity, although this is threatened by serious ecological problems including deforestation and soil erosion.
Fundraising News
April 2011: Congratulations to Emily M-H who has secured a £500 grant for the building project from the clothes store Next.
March 2011: Buy a raffle ticket for the big Easter egg raffle- see posters around school
March 2011: Ideas pouring in to the team leaders, but we are awaiting our next money maker! You will hear it here first!
Feb 2011: Over £200 raised by the team selling donuts and roses on valentines day- well done to all of you who worked so hard to raise the money.
Please email pch@cooperscoborn.co.uk if you would like to donate towards the project or help organise a fundraising event/idea.
Why Madagascar?
We are currently in the process of raising £20,000 to fund a new secondary school block and a reforestation project in the village of Andranosoa, 15miles to the East of the capital Antananarivo.
Building a New Secondary School Block
Reforestation Project
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, as can be seen in the data and information below.
Madagascar Development Data
Population: 20 million
GNP Per Capita: $260
Urban Population: 30%
Religions: Traditional beliefs - 52% Christian - 41% Muslim - 7%
Population Growth Rate: 3.03%
Life Expectancy: 56.1 years
Infant Mortality: 80 per 1,000 live births
Under Five Mortality: 136 per 1,000 live births
Maternal Mortality Rate: 490 per 100,000 live births
Percentage of Literate Adult Males: 76%
Percentage of Literate Adult Females: 63%
Percentage Population With Access to Safe Drinking Water: 47%
Over three-quarters of Madagascar’s 20 million inhabitants live in rural areas. Seventy-two percent of Malagasy people live on less than $1 per day. Madagascar is emerging from a prolonged political dispute. This political crisis devastated the economy, further strained one of the world's top three "biodiversity hotspots," and disrupted an already weak health care system. The political crisis further worsened people's well being. In addition, during the eight-month crisis, illegal exporting of endangered species occurred. Such actions threaten long-term prospects for sustainable development in Madagascar, given the uniqueness of Madagascar's flora and fauna. Madagascar’s primary source of income is agriculture, a sector that employs eighty-eight percent of workers. While fifty percent of land is arable, less than ten percent is cultivated, due to lack of roads and irrigation infrastructure, credit and marketing, and farm equipment. Food crops of Madagascar are rice, maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and groundnuts. Cash crops include coffee, vanilla, cloves, sugarcane, cotton, cocoa and sisal. Madagascar is renowned for its biological diversity, although this is threatened by serious ecological problems including deforestation and soil erosion.
