{"id":14513,"date":"2026-04-04T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:26:43","slug":"supporting-children-in-madagascar-through-a-shared-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/supporting-children-in-madagascar-through-a-shared-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bowl of Rice: Supporting Children in Madagascar Through a Shared Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elodie Fraboulet, Congregational Spirituality Centre Assistant, Motherhouse, France <\/em><\/p>\n

The now annual \u201cBowl of Rice<\/em>\u201d solidarity meal, organised by the Motherhouse team, took place on Good Friday, 3e<\/sup> April 2026.<\/p>\n

Inspired by a tradition that originated in private schools in France, this initiative invites everyone to share a simple meal \u2014 a bowl of rice \u2014 in a spirit of solidarity. In return, participants are free to donate an amount of their choice, which goes towards supporting a charitable cause. This occasion, both convivial and meaningful, brought together 70 people<\/strong>, including sisters and partners-in-mission, as well as members of the wider community from the parish of Saint-Lazare-Saint-Nicolas, the nearest to the Motherhouse in Angers, France.<\/p>\n

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At the meal, Sister Annamma Vattakottayil<\/strong>, head of the Motherhouse and a missionary in Madagascar<\/strong> for 42 years, gave a presentation about the mission in Mozambique and our schools there.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe told us about the lives of the children and their parents, and the work the sisters do there; it was very interesting,\u201d<\/em> says Genevi\u00e8ve, one of the participants at the meal. \u201cWe saw a wonderful outpouring of generosity and solidarity towards Madagascar,\u201d<\/em> another participant, Michelle, enthusiastically shared.<\/p>\n

This year, a total of \u20ac2,015 has been raised and will be donated to our communities in Madagascar to benefit the children attending our Good Shepherd schools there.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThe donations will help three schools, two in Antananarivo, the capital, and one in Sandrandahy,\u201d<\/em> explains Sister Florentine Raharinirina<\/strong>, leader of the Isles District.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur aim is to feed the children attending our schools. They often come from poor families. The three schools cater for over 700 children aged between 5 and 18. In Madagascar, a kilo of rice costs 1\u20ac and is enough to feed seven or eight children. Thanks to the donations received, we will therefore be able to prepare a very large number of meals, and we are very grateful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Elodie Fraboulet, Congregational Spirituality Centre Assistant, Motherhouse, France The now annual \u201cBowl of Rice\u201d solidarity meal, organised by the Motherhouse team, took place on Good Friday, 3rd April 2026. Inspired by a tradition that originated in private schools in France, this initiative invites everyone to share a simple meal \u2014 a bowl of rice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-madagascar","category-motherhouse","category-spirituality-center"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PHOTO-2026-03-03-09-50-28-3_169.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14521,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/14521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olcgs.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}