Solidarité Internationale Madagascar is a student's association of apprentice engineers from Arts & Métiers - Bordeaux.

Each year, the SIM team provide a technical solution to a village's problem.

There were many answers : well building, installation of an electric system, arrangement of solar panels, etc.

Since its creation, SIM has learnt how to establish a strong cultural exchange between the Madagascan children and those of a French school.

As apprentice engineers, we wish to share our technical knowledge in order to improve the population's everyday life but also to involve ourselves in a topic that is a cause close to our heart : our planet.

But exactly, who are we ?

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Solidarité Internationale Madagascar began in 2011. It was developed by apprentice engineers of Arts & Métiers de Bordeaux and C.F.A.I Aquitaine. Since the beginning, SIM has contributed to the Madagascan village's development in the region of Menabe in the southwest of The Red Island.

This year, like SIM 2016, in October - November 2017 we are going to set up our project in Ankotrofotsy. We are six, motivated and dynamic !

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From left to right : Antoine Coudroux (Technical supervisor) , Benoit Taunais (Financing supervisor) , Elodie Renaud (Events and cultural exchange supervisor) , Léo Raimond (Project supervisor) , Raphael Gauvin (Accounts supervisor) , Romain Teixeira (Communications supervisor)

For our project, we are associated with health professionals and a Madagascan association from Ankotrofotsy.

With their help, we want to make people react on the use of their coal ovens. Indeed, deforestation is an important subject of our society and even more on the Red Island.

Madagascar is covered with 20% of forest (13 million hectares). But 36,000 hectares are destroyed each year, causing soil erosion and loss of biodiversity : 75% of plant species have disappeared.

In this case, the poverty of people, who most often illegally cleared plots of forest for cultivation as well as the production of coal for cooking.

We want to change this by offering a technical solution!

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Some details about the technical solution :

The technical supervisor has worked on the study and conception of a solar cooker.The plans were drawn by the precedent promotion of apprentice engineers.

Then, with these plans, we will go to Madagascar and will build three solar cookers for three villages. These ovens will be given to influential people to help in their installation.

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With the example of solar cookers, we wish to raise awareness among a primary school class from Bordeaux about deforestation and the stakes that this has for Madagascar but also for our planet.

In keeping with the last SIM team, we will work with teachers during many interventions in the school.

On The Red Island, we will live with villagers in order to share their culture and traditions while sensitizing them on the deforestation that surrounds them and how they can remedy it.

Moreover, we hope to share sporting and playful activities with the Madagascan children.

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SIM association has already established partnerships with several sponsors :

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We are a part of the first edition of CrAMfunding !

What is the CrAMfunding ?

It's a challenge organized by KissKissBankBank and Arts & Métiers ParisTech. Ten projects were selected by a jury and we were chosen !.

We start the fund-raising with the help of 1000€ from Arts & Métiers.

Moreover, three prizes at stake :

Prize « Jackpot » : campaign with the biggest fund-raising on KissKissBankBank within the scope of CrAMfunding.

Prize « General Public » : campaign with the biggest numbe of sponsors on KissKissBankBank within the scope of CrAMfunding.

Prize « Great Patron » : campaign with the highest donation on KissKissBankBank within the scope of CrAMfunding

The collected fund-raising will be deposited on the account of "Fonds de Développement Industrie du futur". We will send the bills linked to the project and this account will pay them.

The " Fonds de Développement de l'industrie du futur« , created in October 2015, is assigned with the mission of favoring actions and tasks of Arts et Métiers, supporting its students and the application of the setting up of the project.

Moreover, thanks to the fund-raising, the donation gives the right to a tax rebate on income of 66 % of its sum . It's limited to 20 % of taxable income. In this way, a donation of 100€ will come to 34€ for his sponsor, the tax rebate is 66 €. Persons subject to ISF can allocate 75% from effected donation up to a limit of 50 000 € per year.

To summarise, sponsors, taxable in France, are able to receive a fiscal deduction for donations superior or equal to 5 euros and it's necessary to make a request to this mail : infoprojetmadagascar@gmail.com

With their help, we want to make people react on the use of their coal furnaces. Indeed, deforestation is an important subject of our society and even more on the Red Island. Madagascar is covered with 20% of forest (13 million hectares). But 36,000 hectares are destroyed each year, causing soil erosion and loss of biodiversity: 75% of plant species have disappeared. In this case, the poverty of the inhabitants, who most often illegally cleared plots of forest for cultivation as well as the production of coal for cooking. We want to change this by offering a technical solution!

Solidarité Internationale Madagascar 2017, campus Arts et Métiers de Bordeaux

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