We all love Madagascar, right?

A touching animated story about a bunch of animals escaping a New York zoo, and making their way, against unbelievable odds, to a paradise island and learning what it is to be truly free, with a group of penguins in tow and a nation of lemurs to greet them. Sounds lovely.

Unfortunately for the humans that live there, it isn't so great.
The people living in the Anosy region are among some of the most impoverished people on the planet and struggle to meet even their basic needs.

Luckily, due to the tireless efforts of SEED Madagascar, things are starting to improve.
Their holistic, community driven approach focused on sustainability, sanitation and education has made significant strides and already there is a tangible difference to the everyday lives of these communities.

However, development of a new school was recently halted due to the funding being pulled. Which means that generations of children that would have gotten an education now won't.

Here at REAL Fundraising, we didn't think that was right. That is why we are spearheading an ambitious campaign to raise as much money as we possibly can and pump it directly into ensuring that school gets built. We have already poured our company's and our personal funds into this cause and now we are reaching out to the wider community to ask you to stand by us, to stand by them and ensure that these children get access to one of the most fundamental and empowering things someone can receive in their life. An education.

Education is key to progression, it is opportunity, it is the reason we can cure diseases, build skyscrapers and travel into space. It's the reason we're not sat in caves banging rocks together.

Education is the reason you're even able to read this at all.

On the 21st July, myself and a group of volunteers will be participating in a sponsored climb of Snowdon and we ask that you dig deep and give as much as you can comfortably afford to this.

Let's build a school.