Ambatomanga' school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, in Madagascar. On the left, this is the building for the final year of elementary school, it was built in 1949/50. In the background, this is the house of the director. In the foreground, this is the new building built in 1954/55 : classrooms for 7th and 8th grades, chemistry classroom and the room for manual work (weaving and sewing). The first SMEP missionaries arrived in Ambatomanga in 1904. The french mission developed the school activities with two kinds of training: a teacher training school and a school to train the indigenous clergy.
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