Education programmes

As part of a public private partnership, QMM has established a vocational college, the Institut de Formation Professionnelle de L’Anosy, in the town of Fort-Dauphin. This college offers a number of courses in construction, mechanics, electronics, agriculture and geology. These all aim to train local people for jobs in the community and on the mine.

QMM has also built ten schools in a number of communities around Fort Dauphin, investing $2.6m on education initiatives before the mine was even built. Much of the investment has been in rural primary schools, although company funding also enabled the establishment of a private high school of quality in the town of Fort-Dauphin. In addition, adult literacy programmes are offered to local communities. It is QMM’s aim to build local people's capacity so that everyone has the same opportunity to be involved.