My name is Bakoly Rasoeliharimanana. I was born and raised in Madagascar where I got my deep roots, being flexible and being rich in what is essential. I am caring, joyful and passionate about helping people. From my teenage years I used to live and work in various countries, as France, The Netherlands and Belgium where I learned and acquired my multicultural mindset and various skills. Being an event organiser within an international group shaped me to be a good listener and a good communicator in a multicultural environment. I speak five different languages Malagasy, French, English, Italian and Dutch.
I am determined and I have a high sense of mission. I am a doer. I have another passion in Madagascar! Helping children. I am the founder of the association Soamiely www.soamiely.com . That has by mission to give to around 100 less fortunate children basic education, food and cultural education (artistic painting, music and dance), since 2009.
My life has been an interesting roller coaster of emotions till when I decided to start to take my life into my own hands and started to learn to really love myself.
During my teenage years I grew up without my parents due to their belief and culture that sending your child abroad is a success and a great opportunity for her future. I had to learn to be independent and self providing very young, in a country and culture that I didn’t know, France.
After some years of challenge with finding my place and finding my way in my new county and new culture I was obliged to go back to Madagascar due to some issues. All the hope and high expectation of the family was on me but it turned out to be a disappointment. I was a failure and a disappointment to myself and to my family.
I managed to reconstruct my life back home, despite of my unease feeling and regret. I was determined and had a big ambition to do better and to leave Madagascar again one day soon, to study and to have a better life. After some hard working, focus and determination for several years, I decided that I was an adult and I wanted to have a sort of success, a marriage. So I was married with a foreign man, who was not living in his birth country. And I decided to follow my then husband to the new country and new culture with a goal of making it a successful marriage, The Netherlands.
Here I was with a high ambition and a much higher expectation for myself. I could not “not succeed” this time in another new country, new culture with new challenges. This time I was married. I went back to study and soon had a child, a very pretty little girl. Her name means “spreaded grace”. But very soon my marriage turned up bad. We both lived in a new country which is not a birth country for neither of us. We were from two different countries. The difference of cultures and personalities plus not knowing what we wanted in life have played a big role in the failure in our marriage.
Then in 2006, my personal development route started. I realised that life doesn’t have to be with so much expectations and so much struggles. So since it is my life, I decided to learn to just be me and to take the responsibility into my own hands, to become the best version of myself.