6 September 2024

Ando Adrianady

Originally from Madagascar and residing in Quebec for fourteen (14) years, Ando Andrianady holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the Université de Montréal, as well as a second-cycle diploma in the Administration of Social and Collective Enterprises from the École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG-UQÀM).

Ando Andrianady has been the Executive Director of the Centre d’action bénévole du Bas-Richelieu Inc. (CABBR) for the past five (5) years and has extensive experience in the community sector. He has held management positions at major organizations in Montreal, such as the YMCA of Quebec and the Old Brewery Mission. He also worked as a fundraising project manager (Grand Bazaar) for Christmas Baskets at the Action Humanitaire et Communautaire (AHC) of the Université de Montréal (UdeM). Additionally, he has served as a board member for several non-profit organizations, including the Sorel-Tracy Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where he was Vice-President, the environmental organization Y’a Quelqu’un l’Autre Bord du Mur in Montreal, the Maison des jeunes de Sorel, the Maison La Margelle, the Regroupement des Centres d’action bénévole de la Montérégie, where he is Vice-President, and the Corporation de développement communautaire de Pierre-De Saurel, where he is the current President.

He has also been committed to humanitarian causes since his teenage years in Madagascar, as part of an association called Léo Club, which helped underprivileged youth in the Malagasy capital. Civic involvement significantly changed his life, as it defined his career path. In this sense, the youth and sociocommunity projects he participated in—whether during his time at the AHC at UdeM, organizing the first YMCA International Youth Engagement Summit, participating in a World Social Forum in Tunis (Tunisia) in 2013, or his humanitarian internship in Nicaragua in 2012—clarified his true calling: helping the most vulnerable and building a fair and just society.

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