School's in

Two mom's and a dad from a local village school committee talk about how life has improved with the school being supported. But life is increasingly hard. The price of rice is rising but production is down.

It's a challenge all through the lowlands where agriculture has traditionally been strong enough that people haven't needed to learn and adapt intensive techniques, the kind used in India and other places, that keep the fields producing a variety of crops through the year.

Some days, Madagascar is heartbreaking and all you can do is breathe in, breathe out and let the next present appear.