By Catherine Craig | President CPALI
18 November
In less than 10 days you have donated $2027 to the SEPALI Madagascar team to help them deal with the crisis. THANK YOU! Health insurance is non-existent in Madagascar and extra funds in the time of crisis go a long way - the team is very grateful.
As you probably know, even though many African village markets are open air, they are crowded. Therefore, the team has decided to spend a portion of the donated funds to provide team lunches until the 15 December holiday begins. This will reduce contact with non-team members most of whom do not wear masks although all team members do. In addition to minimizing contact, provided lunches will also allow the team to make sure that at least one meal a day is nutritious.
Mamy has sent me photographs and a few short introductions to introduce you team members. Pictures of team members in header of this email and subsequent messages.
Above:" Mario, Lalaina and Jerisson are working together to create their disc textile. They are free to choose their own design and inspiration. Jerisson have been working with SEPALIM since 2015, he is 28 years old. In addition to the SEPALIM 's work, Jerisson is a good carpenter and he helped SEPALIM to build up any infrastructure such as fruit dryer, shelter, and storage houses. Jerisson has just married this year."
"Mario have been working with SEPALIM since 2008. He is 38 years old now.
He finished the first 5 years of school. He has two daughters of 17 and 9 years old.
His first daughter is close to get baccalaureate degree. Mario contribued to the design of the multicolored disc textile. This design inspires from the color combination idea that the team learnt from the art magazine booklet. In addition to his design creation skill, Mario is in charge of maintaining as well as repairing all the sewing machines since 2008."
Lalaina is the director of the artisan team. She has been working with SEPALIM since 2010. She is in charge of artistic design and specializes in card-weaving with raffia to provide trim of SEPALIM's cocoon silk baskets.
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