Stories
Bako Rajaona is one of the longest-serving workers in the Mandritsara Good News Project….I am Malagasy, I speak Malagasy, but I don’t know how to teach, even if it’s teaching Malagasy.
That is what happened to Brigia on that day in 2007, and sadly, she was knocked over by a motorbike. She sustained severe injuries, breaking both legs and her jaw in multiple places. Her distraught mother found her lying on the edge of the road in a pool of blood and in severe pain. Seeing the extent of her injuries, Brigia’s mother was sure she would die.
Around ten years ago, she was brought to the hospital by her mother, after days of labour and not being able to deliver the baby. As she arrived at the hospital, she gave birth to a dead baby.
At 5 o’clock this morning…. I’m on my way to meet members of the community health team before we head off together by motorbike to Manja, a village about 20km from Mandritsara.
As I turn the corner, I see some pupils running out of the classroom they have just entered, screaming at the top of their lungs. A chameleon has made itself…
Concerned that the labour had not progressed, she arranged for her daughter to make the journey to the Good News Hospital. Their only option for getting there was a taximoto…
‘David Mann has just come back from Madagascar. Pray for the AEF council as they meet to decide whether it is God’s will that the Mann family and others go to Madagascar to start an evangelistic medical work in the town of Mandritsara, working with the Association of Bible Baptist Churches.’
I found myself staring at the empty baggage carousel on my own at nearly midnight in Ivato airport, Antananarivo, Madagascar, my bags still stranded somewhere in Paris! It’s difficult to put into words the “out of my depth” feeling that struck me in that moment as I stood there alone and very far from home churning over a multitude of questions in my head
How does a twenty-something year-old lass from the Land Down Under end up in Northern Madagascar to teach missionary children? Good question! The short answer is by just a few aeroplane flights!
