Sekoly Kintana

A Turning Point: One Trainer, One Classroom, Real Change

In August 2025, a 4,000 USD grant allowed us to bring in an experienced Montessori teacher, Megan, as a full-time in-class trainer from September 2025 to June 2026.

She paid her own travel. The grant covers her room and board and gives her a small working budget while she lives on site and works side by side with our team.

The impact was immediate: 

• Our Sounds and Shapes reading progression, which we had only used in English, is now fully adapted and used in Malagasy and French. Children are now at all stages of learning to read, and they are doing it in their strongest language first.
  • Watch a video of a four year old learning how to form & read words:
    Asa (work) in Malagasy
• Our assistants say they finally understand how to support children through behavior by invitation, not just correction. More children are asking for lessons, helping each other, and choosing meaningful work. 
• Our math lessons are clearer and more consistent. Concepts like sequencing and the role of zero clicked for one guide after coaching, and you can see the difference in how she presents and follows up with each child.
• Parents see it too. Kids who cried and begged not to go back to their old schools, now beg to come to our school even on vacation. 

This is what one experienced and emotionally intelligent Montessorian in the room can do.

Two months into the school year. Reading.What We Are Raising Money For

Our 2025–2026 goal is to raise 50,000 USD to grow real Montessori capacity here in Anosy.

1. First, we want one experienced Montessori trainer in the classroom each year. Your gift helps cover simple room and board, a modest stipend, and a small working budget so they can coach our team in real time while children learn.
2. Second, we need to hire and train local assistants and future guides before classrooms are full. Tuition alone cannot do that yet. Donations let us pay fair salaries while they learn on the job, receive structured Montessori and early literacy training, and study English or French so they can access global courses like CGMS.
3. Third, we are building and printing materials locally. Your support buys wood, ink, and laminating, pays Malagasy carpenters to make shelves and manipulatives, and helps us create trilingual phonics and math materials that other schools can also use.
4. Finally, we want to share what we are learning. With your help we can host Saturday workshops, open our doors for teacher observations, and offer low cost or free materials so one small lab school becomes a resource for the whole region.

Every dollar you give strengthens three things at once: the adults in the room, the materials in children’s hands, and the wider network of schools who are hungry for a different way to teach and learn.