Pere Pedro Akamasoa

This man is extraordinary. I was lucky enough to spend a few days in his company at Akamasoa in Tananarivo, Madagascar. Father Pedro belongs to the Congregation of St Vincent de Paul He has created out of nothing several villages with the poorest people of the poorest country in the world. They use to work in a garbage dump. His obsession is to give them their dignity back. So he open a granite mine and started producing pavers and gravel for the building industry. This income added to the donations from around the world allowed him to build 6 villages. Every Sunday he conduct a mass that gather thousands of people. He has built schools, hospitals, houses, refuges for women and elderly. He feeds hundreds of kids  every day. Check
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Father Pedro
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Where it all started, The Garbage Dump
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The granit mine. Workers get a pay for their work
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The gravel and pavers are sold to the building industry
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Father Pedro ans some of the hundreds kids that get fed and now go to school
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A meeting with Father Pedro on one of the mining sites
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A meeting with Father Pedro on one of the mining sites
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Akamasoa is located on the hills above Tananarivo. One of the villages on the ridge on the left
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another of the 6 Akamasoa villages
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Each newcomer gets free materials and the help of others to build his houses. Conditions: no prostitution, no alcoholism, no violence and the kids must go to school
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one of the vilages
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another settlement. Note the paved street and powerlines. Tananarivo, the capital does not have street lighting. Akamasoa does.
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One of the many schools
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Graduation
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Welcoming the new members
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the daily rice
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Hundreds of kids are fed every day
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The Sunday Mass
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I told him I didn’t believe in God. He replied “compassion is universal”
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The best man I ever met