Malagasy conservationist Lily-Arison René de Roland has won the world’s most prestigious international conservation award: we congratulate him and hope he, and we, can register many more successes in our work to protect and expand the Malagasy rainforests, help the flora and fauna within them to thrive, and help Malagasy people lift themselves from hunger and poverty. A Malagasy scientist has won the ‘Nobel Prize for Animal Conservation’ following years of discovery, protecting Madagascar’s wildlife and natural spaces, and training young Malagasy people to potect the island’s flora and fauna. Lily-Arison René de Roland won the Indianapolis Prize, US$250,000, an...

The people, the plants, and the animals of Madagascar are fighting a battle for survival, against problems which are almost all not of their making. Our work is inclusive, it is fair, and it is necessary. Join us.    At Money for Madagascar, we work with and for Malagasy organisations, communities and individuals, offering people a platform from which their work, innovation and skill can lift them from poverty and hunger, as well as the means to protect and expand their vital, vibrant forests, saving animals and plants from extinction. Madagascar is a beautiful country, rich in resources and with immense...

Money for Madagascar and our partners helped almost 800 Malagasy children who cannot live with their families, in the last year. In the last full year, Money for Madagascar and its Malagasy partners provided care, shelter, education, food, clean water and education to almost 800 Malagasy children unable to live with their families. Our Protecting and Empowering Vulnerable Children/Children for the Future (CfF) programme, working at eight centres for orphaned, abandoned, abused, and homeless children, has in 2023-24, reached 779 Malagasy children, 305 boys and 474 girls. The programme works at four day-centres, where homeless and otherwise uncared-for youngsters are...

With just six months remaining of the Resilient Forests and Livelihoods pilot period, we are delighted to report our programme’s progress to date. Money for Madagascar has helped restore and reforest hundreds of acres of Malagasy rainforest, and empowered thousands of Malagasy people to lift themselves from poverty and hunger, while protecting the vibrant, vital forests which surround them. Our Resilient Forests and Livelihoods programme began as a three-year pilot in October 2022. As it approaches the end of that ‘trial stage’ this September, we are delighted to report its excellent impacts so far. We launched RFL to help Malagasy...

‘In this school we have seen a model of energy and connectivity which the World Bank team and the ministerial team can draw inspiration from to expand it across Madagascar.’ Two MfM programmes’ innovative approaches to education and energy provision, have been declared a model to be used across Madagascar by the World Bank. Energy specialists and World Bank representatives have praised Money for Madagascar’s approach to energy provision to Malagasy people, and declared it a model for the whole country, on a fact-finding mission at a Malagasy school. The Bank visited the Amboasarikely Public Primary School, part of the...

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Malagasy counterpart Andry Nirina Rajoelina have agreed and announced a series of agreements on education, agriculture and energy, as well as one promising a joint study of a massacre in which some believe 200,000 Malagasy people were killed by French soldiers and politicians. We welcome the development initiatives – and hope the ‘commission of historians’ helps the families of the massacre’s victims learn more about what happened and how, and to gain some resolution in their fight for justice – but note that in the current global context, far more needs to be done...

French president Emmanuel Macron arrives in Antananarivo this afternoon (Wednesday 23rd April) for the first bilateral visit to Madagascar since 2005. But alongside talks on trade, defence, climate change and pollution, disagreement over ownership of Indian Ocean islands is likely to be expressed.   French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Madagascar today to meet with Malagasy president Andry Nirina Rajoelina, and bring to an end a foreshortened visit to the Indian Ocean. Macron was in Mayotte on Monday, where he announced a €3.2bn five year ‘rebuilding’ plan to help the island, which is a French department, recover from the devastation of...

In the previous RFL post, we met Joséphine, a shop-owner and farmer in the PK7 village in Moramanga, part of the Moramanga district in Madagascar’s Toamasina province. In that post we learnt about how Joséphine changed her and her family’s life by taking part in savings and loans projects run by Money for Madagascar and our Malagasy partner Mitsinjo Association. In this second part, we meet her again, and consider how Dynamic Agro-Forestry is helping Malagasy farmers improve their yields, incomes and lives, while also preserving, protecting and expanding the vibrant, extraordinary rainforest on which we all rely: helping Malagasy...

Despite working two jobs, Joséphine Rasoanantenaina was only able to earn half the money she and her family required to cover their daily needs. Her story – including the efforts and decisions she made – shows how our Resilient Forests and Livelihoods (RFL) programme enables Malagasy people to lift themselves from poverty and food shortage, without resorting to damaging and removing sections of the rainforest they live alongside. Our savings and loans projects – one of which Joséphine joined – are one way we help people improve their lives and livelihoods. In her case, they have helped her achieve some...

We are delighted to share photos of the excellent progress on the building of the new Akany Avoko Bevalala AAB Boys’ Centre Dormitory. As the images show, the building’s structure is complete and its cladding is ready to be installed. Work on the interior will progress next. The new dormitory will have sleeping space for 48 boys (six bedrooms each for eight boys), an increase of 14 places on the 34 in the previous centre. As we have previously reported, the AAB centre provides protection, care and access to education for boys aged 10-18, who are unable to live with,...

‘The GSC has allowed me to escape poverty. Today, I can dream bigger.’ The Resilient Forests and Livelihoods programme, to which all your DOUBLED donations made through the Green Match Fund from 12pm GMT Tuesday 22 April to 12pm GMT Tuesday 29 April, will go, works to protect the unique Malagasy environment, for the benefit of us all, while also improving lives and livelihoods, helping Malagasy people lift themselves from poverty and escape food shortage. We’d like to introduce you to Noeline, a mother of three who used the opportunities given by RSF to lift herself and her husband from...

A Money for Madagascar project has helped children pass their primary school exams in record numbers. Our Education for Life programme sets out to ensure that children – and parents – are able to access and benefit from high-quality education in Madagascar, and have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, benefiting themselves and their communities. Four in ten Malagasy children do not complete even primary school, and we work to ensure parents can afford school fees, children have the equipment they need, and teachers and parents receive equipment and training to help children make the most of their school years....