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40 feet and 140 horsepower for southern Madagascar
For a long time, relatives cooked meals for patients on traditional open fires in the wasteland outside the hospital site.
The cattle roads and tracks around Fotadrevo are not surfaced, so in the months of the rainy season especially, they can often become impassable for weeks on end, even for off-road vehicles.
In the Berlin Team Relay race 2015, three teams ran for Madagascar over the course of two days.
At the Berlin Half-Marathon 2015, a team of doctors from the Berlin Charité hospital decided to run for Doctors for Madagascar.
The Hopitaly Zoara in Fotadrevo uses the public electricity network, which is supplied by two large diesel generators on the nearby town square. Yet the power supply is unstable.
Many talented musicians have helped us raise money for Madagascar by running charity concerts.
Without PAUL there is little or no clean water. Developed for use in disaster areas, PAUL is a kind of water rucksack with a built-in filtering system.
A 9-hour drive over 237km, mostly on dirt roads, brings us from the coastal city of Tulear to Fotadrevo. The last time we were here was in 2012.
It’s the beginning of the rainy season, but we are lucky: it only takes us nine hours to cover the 250 km from Tulear to Fotadrevo.