The year is 2018. Sitting in her office in the southwest of Madagascar, Razay Zanabaindrano recounts a tragic incident that resulted from poor roads in her hometown.
Zanabaindrano is a midwife and pharmacist in Toliara — formerly Tulear — the coastal capital of southwest Madagascar and one of the most prominent trading hubs in the country. “There was once a sick man and we used a zebu cart to take him to a car…We could not even reach where the car was waiting and he died,” she explained.,