Interesting Facts about Madagascar

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3 curious facts about Madagascar.

• Because ancestors are so important, people continue to take care of their family members after they have died. During a ceremony called famadihana, family members open the dead person’s grave and removed the lamba he or she was wearing when buried. Then they wash the body and wrap it in a new silk lamba.
• Children go to school at 7am. Classes are taught in French. At 10 am children go home for lundh and a rest. At 3pm they go back to school until 5pm.
• They have a set of rules called Fady that explain what people should not do. Ex: Being rude to a stranger is fady. Refusing a stranger’s kindness is fady. Children eating their meals before their elders is fady.