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Famine Appeal in Southern MadagascarCan you help ...
Money for Madagascar is urgently appealing for help to respond to the humanitarian crisis developing in Southern Madagascar. 2020 has been a hard year for the whole world, but for families in southern Madagascar, the combination of relentless drought and COVID-19 have been particularly catastrophic.
Read MoreTeaching the next generation.
Our Education for Life programme teaches Malagasy children and parents the value of a healthy lifestyle in enabling a good education.
Read MoreAdding value by adding forests
Often the best way to protect an old forest is to plant a new one. Money for Madagascar is working with local Malagasy people on projects involving reforestation and sustainable livelihoods.
Read MoreProtectingand enabling vulnerable children
Money for Madagascar gives children who have been orphaned, abandoned, abused or homeless a shelter, food, healthcare, education, water, sanitation and loving care.
Read MoreFundraisingto help improve lives in Madagascar.
Fundraising for Money for Madagascar helps us continue and expand our work in Madagascar.
Read MoreInspiringvisitors to discover Madagascar, visit our projects and make a difference
There is nowhere quite as marvellous as Madagascar! The unique forests, friendly villages and lively cities will be remembered long after your trip has ended.
Read MoreInvesting in people and the environment
Money for Madagascar has always seen human development as essentially linked to environmental protection.
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Money for Madagascar -Malagasy Solutions to Madagascar’s Challenges
Madagascar, whilst famous for its astonishing flora and fauna, is a country in crisis. After decades of economic disarray, levels of income, healthcare and education are amongst the lowest in the world with an estimated 70% of the country living in poverty. Meanwhile population growth is putting enormous pressure on precious rainforest, more than half of which has disappeared. In response to this social and environmental crisis, UK charity, Money for Madagascar was founded in 1986 to
Read MoreOur Projects
Our projects tackle many of the key issues facing Madagascar today: food security, loss of bio-diversity, poor health and extreme poverty. We also respond to emergencies, from cyclone relief to feeding programmes for street kids and their families. With modest resources we have built a record that we, our supporters and our Malagasy partners are proud of.
Protecting & Enabling Vulnerable Children
MfM works to transform the lives of vulnerable children in and around the capital. Orphaned,
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Forests and Livelihoods
Madagascar’s forests are home to thousands of plants and animals found nowhere else on earth
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Education for Life
MfM’s Education for Life (Ed4Life) programme is working to tackle key obstacles to educational access
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Disaster Resilience
Madagascar faces natural disasters, usually in the form of cyclones, on an almost annual basis.
Read MoreFUNDRAISING
Are you interested in fundraising for MfM? Can you help us expand our current programmes?
We couldn’t do this without the support of people like YOU! Half of our income comes from grants but the other half is raised by individuals and community groups. We also rely on generous volunteers who give their time to help us get things done.
Get Sporty
Could you run, walk or do something else sporty to raise funds for MfM?
Get Bouncing
Schools and groups across the country are bouncing like lemurs for MfM. Can you?
Get Planting
Climate change is happening now! Can you help us plant trees to address this problem?
Get Involved
MfM welcomes anyone with ideas of how to raise funds for Madagascar.
Our Achievements
We favour ideas which make the best possible use of available resources and are proud to support projects with an emphasis on recycling and sustainable technologies. These include rainwater harvesting systems, the innovative use of plastic bags and bottles, and the production of charcoal alternative fuels.
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Schools Supported
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Trees Planted
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Years of Support
Latest News
Latest news and updates from all our projects, as well as details of forthcoming fundraising events in the UK.
Betampona Forests and Livelihoods Project
It’s time to share some good news from our sustainable livelihoods project, run by SAF, in the villages surrounding Madagascar’s unique Betampona Reserve. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, they have had a successful year and the development and conservation in the area has achieved good results. The local population are learning ways to improve their agricultural practices to improve their income and nutrition in sustainable ways. This helps reduce the forest being destroyed through ‘slash and burn’ and wildlife poaching. More productive agricultural techniques have also meant that the diets and therefore the health of the people have improved. The sale...
Update from Topaza Children’s Centre
The generous UWI grant awarded to the Topaza Children’s centre has been put to good use. The centre is struggling financially with no funding coming from the state for several years to help support children sent there from the courts. Topaza relies mostly on donations and sponsorship of children to keep the home open so this very generous grant is very welcome to help the financial stability of the centre. The majority of the grant was spent on a new minibus for the centre. This arrived in July and...
Work to replace tourism at Mitsinjo
The Covid crisis has meant that there are no tourists coming to our projects at Andisibe. To prevent unemployment and poverty we have provided grants to the Association of Mitsinjo. They have used the grants in a number of innovative ways, not only to help with the immediate situation, but also to increase what is offered to tourists which should boost income when they return to this beautiful area. The local guides have been working hard in the forest creating two new routes – one is a night...
A thank you from FJKM School
Education for Life is a programme to provide resources to help with the education of children and funds to improve facilities at schools. Over 10,000 children, teachers and parents, have benefited from this programme in 54 schools. Our Education for Life programme, along with our partner Ankizy Gasy, helped the FJKM School in Ambohidratrimo. We have previously helped restore the school building here. This time, we made a contribution towards the wages of ten teachers; the income of the school in May was much lower than normal as the Covid 19 pandemic means that the price of food...
Happy Fathers’ Day!
This Fathers’ Day was made very special by our great partners at Ankizy Gasy! Whilst the men may have had a day of rest, our strong female team was out there once again, delivering their 6th round of Covid assistance to vulnerable families in and around Ambohidratrimo, Analamanga. Families in need receive small grants, soap, masks, information and medication when needed. Several visits have also been made to our Education for Life Schools, like Angodonina and FJKM Ambohidratrimo, to set-up hand washing stations and give out masks, soap and information, so exam classes can restart...
Help Build a Forest – Twin your Favourite Tree for World Rainforest Day!
We have ambitions to plant 1million trees in Madagascar. Just £5.00 covers the cost to plant, maintain and protect a tree in our projects. Send us a photo of your favourite tree with an ‘I’m a Tree Twin’ sign and we will twin it with one in Madagascar. Donate money to plant trees in our projects at Mitsinjo and Betampona We’ll share your tree with a Malagasy twin In Mitsinjo in Eastern Madagascar, we are restoring natural forest by creating wildlife corridors to expand the habitat of endemic and threatened species. A variety of tree...
MfM Covid-19 response in Maintirano
MfM Partners step-up to prevent Covid-19 before it reaches remote Maintirano. Money for Madagascar has sent appeal funds to two well established partners, SAF/FJKM Melaky and Association FIVEM to strengthen their campaign to prepare the population of Maintirano against COVID-19. The two organizations have joined forces with the local authorities, including the town Mayor, the Regional Director and the Regional Director of Rural Development to provide a strong and coordinated response. Maintirano usually suffers from isolation. At best it takes 60 hours to reach by road from the capital in a 4×4 vehicle. For much of the year is can...
MIA Supports Projects to Combat COVID-19 in Madagascar
London, UK, April 24, 2020 – Chocolate brand MIA, short for Made In Africa, commits £500 of its 1 for Change impact fund to support MfM to reach more communities in Madagascar. To assist communities threatened by COVID-19, funds from MIA will help MfM to set up handwashing stations, back local production of face masks and finance free food for vulnerable families. According to a recent BBC report, Africa has thus far avoided the devastation that COVID-19 has reaped on other parts of the world but the continent faces the risk of serious economic impact. For their part,...
How your donations are helping – Covid-19 Update
The two Akany Avoko centres are managing very well so far. Grants from MfM have helped them to stock up on food, soap and medicines before they went into lock-down. Akany Avoko Ambohidratrimo is blessed to have lots of space and well advanced vegetable growing and rainwater harvesting which all help to support their lock-down mode. Akany Avoko Faravohitra is more confined, having some 65 girls in one building and a relatively small garden. However they are keeping spirits up with lots of home-grown entertainment, music, quiz nights, competitions,...
Making Masks – How Your Appeal Donations Are Working!
Thank you to supporters old and new for your kind donations that are pouring in for our Covid-19 Appeal. With your help we are starting to reach the most vulnerable. Here’s our first update on how your donations are making a difference… Masks in Madagascar are difficult to get hold of and hard to afford. So teenage girls and graduates from Akany Avoko children’s centre are busy sewing hundreds of washable face masks. MfM is placing bulk orders to make masks available to our projects, so we can protect our most vulnerable kids, as well as the staff at our...
Covid-19 Appeal
APPEAL TOTAL PASSES £41k Urgent appeal to reduce suffering as Coronavirus strikes Madagascar. We are all reeling from Coronavirus. At home and across the world we face hardship fear and sickness. Faced with hardship at home, do we have it in our hearts to reach out? “In rich countries, it is likely that hundreds of thousands will die in the coming months. But if past pandemics are any guide, those numbers are likely to be a small fraction of the body count expected in the poorest parts of the globe.” Money for Madagascar has spent decades working in...
UK Vets back Rainforest Farmers!
UK based, Lanes Vets have chosen Money for Madagascar as their charity of the year for 2020. It is wonderful to have their recognition in support of our work with vulnerable farmers in Madagascar. Fundraising efforts will support subsistence farmers living around Madagascar’s fragile rainforest. The forest people in Betampona used to survive by chopping down the rainforest and hunting lemurs. When forest people learn sustainable farming methods they can feed their families whilst also preserving the endangered rainforest. Small grants provide veterinary care such as vaccinations to support forest farmers. Training and support are vital to help people to...
Latest Posts
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Betampona Forests and Livelihoods Project
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Update from Topaza Children’s Centre
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