A Roman missionary, Father Stefano Scaringella is also a surgeon. In 1983, after a few years spent in Zaire as a doctor, he arrived in Madagascar to work in a leprosarium near Ambandja, a town of around 50,000 people in the northwest of the island. He quickly realized that people were dying of many other things besides leprosy. He therefore created the St-Damien medico-surgical center.
Very quickly, he found himself with children whose mother had died in childbirth. There too it was necessary to act, and he created the Children’s House, to accommodate children who have lost their mother. As in many African countries, the family is mainly based on mothers. Close families taking care of boys more easily, so it is mainly girls who are in the children’s home, where they receive board, lodging, care, schooling (including school fees) then higher and professional training in Antananarivo, and above all with a lot of love.
Here is something to raise the interest of the Hermann foundation, whose purpose is precisely to help the education and vocational training of girls and young women, to make them economically independent. The Hermann Foundation chose to finance sewing lessons for around twenty young girls (next course in December 2019).
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