When the Argentinian Father Pedro meets Ezequiel Lavezzi Argentinian footballer from PSG by Hotel ★★★ Coconut Lodge Majunga gourmet restaurant.
When the Argentinian Father Pedro meets Ezequiel Lavezzi Argentinian footballer from PSG by Hotel ★★★ Coconut Lodge Majunga gourmet restaurant.
Father Pedro, founder of the Association Akamasoa created in 1989 and located at Andralanitra, has met an Argentinian footballer who shares the same values that he. According to a release of the Akamasoa, the two passionate humanist of football, met at a charity dinner organized, Thursday 26 November in France.
Father Pedro and Ezequiel Lavezzi have two things in common : the love of football and devotion to the poor. They have the same nationality, Argentina. Previously, before being priest, Pedro played almost in professional football. Lavezzi, It is Paris Saint Germain striker. The generosity of Lavezzi wowed father Pedro : "That an athlete if high-level is also sensitive to the plight of poor children, This means that humanism and the sense of sharing still exist ! What good example ! », He said. His side, Lavezzi also gave its opinion on twitter. "I was delighted to make the acquaintance of a person who has done so much good for people who have the most need., He said.
AKAMASOA ( "good friends".) is a Malagasy humanitarian association which was founded by father Pedro OPEKA in 1989. It is designed to ensure the human rehabilitation and the economic and social reintegration of the poorest.
Akamasoa created on the outskirts of Antananarivo 5 composed of reception centres 17 villages where 2 926 families (15 560 more people from 60 % children under the age of 15 years). Extracted the worst slum families, streets and piles of garbage in the capital, who currently live on the fruit of their work and their efforts. An idea came quickly to the father Pedro : the homeless destitute of everything find dignity and autonomy that by becoming actors in their own development. Families in the villages built by the association in the suburbs of Antananarivo are therefore committed to working, to send their children to school and to respect the basic rules of life in society.
In return, the Akamasoa association provides them with a framework for their integration :
2900 jobs (Careers, construction of houses, confection, Arts and crafts, Workshop of tiles, welding and mechanical workshop, carpentry workshop, Agriculture) en 2008,
2 184 housing in 2008,
4 schools (primary and secondary),
1 high school and 5 nurseries (9277 children are educated in the province of Antananarivo in 2008),
6 clinics.
Today, thousands of families live their work income. It is estimated that 11 000 people from neighbouring villages benefit from its health infrastructure. Those who want to return home are helped; Thus 1350 families have been repatriated to their place of origin. The association gives them some tools and pay them their transportation costs…
SERVICE RECEPTION AND ORIENTATION.
Akamasoa association has chosen to ensure the temporary reception of emergency of poor families living in the streets and without work, through the provision of aid in kind : health care, emergency food aid and donations of basic working tools. If families are required to stay in the centres of Akamasoa, First, they are housed in wooden huts (9 M2) in the meantime a hard House. For them, These huts are already a” luxury”, but a “luxury” which is far from enough. In fact, provide decent housing for these people is a key priority for their physical and moral health, and so children can study in suitable conditions. Thus, an extensive construction program was launched to make habitat the basis of conversion of families : 2 000 accommodation of various categories were able to be built, the final houses temporary wooden houses.
Congratulations to Father Pedro by Hotel ★★★ Gourmet restaurant coconut Lodge Majunga.
