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Overview 2014 After seven years working for ADES in Madagascar, Otto and Lisa Frei are returning to Switzerland at the beginning of the year. From September, Isabelle Marthaler-Marty will take over as coordinator after a difficult transition phase. Since she has been living in Madagascar since 2012, where she and her husband run a technical vocational school in

Overview 2013 ADES buys land in Fianarantsoa at the end of April. Already in mid-July, a building begins to grow on it without the use of large machines, but with a lot of manual labour. Five months later, ADES inaugurates a new factory with the largest celebration of its kind to date, which at a stroke increases OLI's production capacity.

Overview 2005 ADES is growing. The construction of a second carpentry workshop is already nearing completion. It is being built in Ejeda, 240 km south of Toliara. The region is one of Madagascar's "poorhouses". It is scheduled to open in February 2006. Pradel, the future manager of Ejeda, has been living on the site since December and is designing the surroundings.