Driven by the passion for change and sustainable development, Rindra is a brilliant environmental student and activist who has relentlessly worked out to make Madagascar green again.
A well-paved way with a clear-cut purpose.
Currently preparing her Master thesis in renewable energies engineering, Razafimamonjy Faniriantsoa Rindranirina is a green activist and the founder of a company named BIOMAD. Since 2018, the young woman has participated in several conferences, competitions and trainings including OJADE Madagascar (Organization of Young Africans for the Development and Emergence of Madagascar), FIJEV (the International Youth and Green Jobs Forum) led by the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie), and the International competition “Climates Innovation Labs Africa”, where her team ended up among the top five competitors with their innovative project called “Simplified Waste” – an Android app intended to make waste collection easier. In the current time, she continues to collaborate with various organizations and associations such as IKM (Ivon’ny Kolontsaina Malagasy), the international organization “Data flow”, and Alliance (Adaptation Alliance Africa-Asia) that gathers local and international organizations involved in tackling climate change and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Rindra and Biomasse de Madagascar.
Her vision to restore Madagascar and create an eco-friendly company arose when she realized that Madagascar dealt with serious environmental issues. “Madagascar is a big island with huge potential. Home to nearly 15,000 species of plants – 90 percent of which are endemic to Madagascar, yet, 50,000 ha disappear annually due to human action: wood exploitation, the “tavy” (burn agriculture) and the use of coal”, Rindra says. Feeling long desperate with the situation, Rindra started her nature-friendly and solution-oriented business called BIOMAD or Biomasse de Madagascar, officially launched in June 2019 during FIJEV-OI held at the International Conference Centre (CCI Ivato).
BIOMAD designs bio-charcoal and produces biogas to help slow down deforestation in Madagascar. Through BIOMAD, Rindra seeks to lower the rate of deforestation up to 70 percent, to encourage rural population to substitute wood energies into biogas and bio-coal, and to contribute to rural development by appealing to environmental conservation emergency.
Rindra’s innovative solution to transform agricultural and forestry waste into biogas and bio-charcoal has been acknowledged and acclaimed. She has been offered the opportunity to publish an article about green economy in a scientific journal called Sciences Letters. In her article, she argues that the most effective way to solve this glaring problem is to create green jobs and to foster green and blue economies. She states: “As I wrote in my article entitled ‘Empowering Green Economy in Post COVID-19 World Order’, we need to focus on creating green employment and boosting green economy to end climate disaster, to promote sustainable development and environmental protection in Madagascar."
“Let’s act together to build a better world far from climate change”, Rindra concludes.
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