Our world

This is our world, the village and fields of Ambohitseheno. I give water to the cows with my brother. Behind us is a rice paddy, which is the main crop grown here. We eat rice every day in Madagascar.

My dad cultivates manioc, rice, tarot and sweet potatoes. My brothers and I carry the fertilizer and compost to the field. It is small field and we grow only enough rice to feed the five of us for three months. We have to buy rice otherwise.

If we could grow vegetables or fruit trees as in our TeleFood garden at school, we could eat some of them at home too and sell the rest to earn some extra money.