In the spirit of solidarity tourism and thanks to the stays of our customers, the ecolodge the Ravoraha has fully financed the school fees until today, of all the primary children of the village Ravoraha and is committed to financing them. also for future years.

We are recognized and thanked by the Malagasy Ministry of National Education for our help to children.

We collect school supplies, entrusted by our hosts, in order to redistribute them at the beginning of the year.

In addition to school supplies, we also collect medicines left by our customers, in order to redistribute them free of charge under prescription to the villagers. To help us you can bring medicines (paracetamol, antibiotic, dressings, disinfectant, Ventolin, etc.…) We are also looking for clothes, shoes for adults or children. We also collect glasses, so empty your cupboards, you will make people happy.

You indirectly preserve nature by staying at the Ravoraha ecolodge because we respect the environment and we do various actions (reforestation, clean up, cleaning of beaches and the village, sorting waste, no air conditioning, energy saving light bulbs, products from biodegradable maintenance, no weedkillers or pesticides. We use natural local materials for the construction (wood, Ravenal Pandanus: local thatch), they are only small structures covered with a green roof, in order to perpetuate and enhance the construction of traditional Saint-Mariens habitats.

Hot water is produced there by solar water heaters.

The ecolodge is supplied with spring water and rainwater.

Wastewater is treated by a septic tank without the addition of chemicals or synthetics.

We use low consumption light bulbs. We only use biodegradable bamboo or paper straws.

For less plastic waste, we have banned shower gels and personal hospitality products in highly polluting plastic by replacing them with wall dispensers.

The ecolodge financed various hygienic toilets with septic tanks for the most needy villagers. This device aims to install odorless, solid, and durable toilets. Madagascar is one of the countries with the lowest rate of access to sanitation in the world: only 14% of families have access to hygienic toilets. Operations for the placement of several metal drums transformed into mini incinerators, in different places of the Ravoraha village so that the villagers can more easily burn their household waste.

You will meet, if you wish, the local population during sculpture lessons, the village of Ravoraha is the village of sculptors of Sainte Marie Island. You will find many wood carvings in the craft shops of our local artists.

You can go fishing in canoes with a villager. We will simply put you in touch with them. We do not rent bicycles or scooters for our guests to rent directly from the villagers in order to develop the local economy. We use local guides in the organization of the tourist circuits and trips offered to our guests